What Happens When Workforce Development Boards Consider Child Care Needs? For many low-income parents, the absence of affordable, quality child care can push dreams of continuing school or landing a family-sustaining job far out of reach. One potential difference maker? Workforce development boards. Read More
What’s Standing in the Way of Evidence-Based Programs? Evidence-based programs could play a real game-changing role for child and family programs if the dissemination of such programs reached a larger segment of the population. A new report examines the lack of dissemination and offers recommendations. Read More
Training Young Women to Become Researchers — and Study Their Own Community's Challenges A new episode of CaseyCast takes listeners to Adams County, Colorado — one of the fastest growing counties in the state in both population and employment. It’s a community where families face many challenges, including higher rates of child poverty, single motherhood and teen births. It’s also home to an innovative effort that is helping local women, ages 18 to 24, train and work as certified digital interviewers. Read More
Why Youth Probation Should Engage People With Justice System Experience A Q&A discusses findings from a report on using justice-involved individuals as mentors for young people on probation. Read the conversation. Read More
Tips for Collaborating Across Sectors to Achieve Results A new working paper shares insights and tips from practitioners and investors involved in multisector efforts to achieve common, focused results that improve the circumstances for kids, families and communities — also known as collective impact. Read More
Admitting Failure: Learning From Mistakes in Philanthropy Admitting failures contributes to high-quality implementation, innovation of new strategies and improved governance and transparency. It’s good medicine that doesn’t always taste so good. Yet despite increasing philanthropic interest in mistakes and learning, many foundation staff still find it difficult to have conversations about mistakes. Read More
Every Kid Needs a Family: Putting Kin First in Washington, D.C. When young people come into the care of the child welfare system and cannot live with their own parents, the next best thing a caseworker can do is to find a loving relative or close friend who can keep the child close to home in every sense. Washington, D.C.’s Child and Family Services Agency has made finding kin a top priority, creating a rapid turnaround process to make it as easy as possible for kin to take on the responsibility of caring for a young person. Read More
Campaign Puts Racial Equity in the Center of the Social Sector Diverse leadership makes nonprofits more effective, according to research. Yet, in the nonprofit sector today, just 10% of CEOs and board chairs and 16% of board members are people of color. Leveling this professional playing field involves building organizational cultures in the social sector that place racial equity at the center of internal operations and external programing. Read More
Healthy Recreational Opportunities in NPU-V Working with the community and public and private partners, the Atlanta Civic Site fostered the revitalization of a neighborhood park and community center in the city's Neighborhood Planning Unit V. Read More
Child and Teen Death Rates on the Decline Since 1990, the mortality rate for American kids has declined 48% — to 24 deaths for every 100,000 children ages 1 to 19. Read More
