Juvenile Detention Risk Assessment A Practice Guide for Juvenile Detention Reform #1 Risk screening evaluates arrested minors to see if they need secure lock up. Learn how each risk and needs assessment for juvenile offenders is customized in this practical guide for juvenile detention reform. Read More
Mentoring Formerly Incarcerated Adults Insights from the Ready4Work Reentry Initiative This report tells how the Ready4Work program, which aims to ease an ex-prisoner’s transition home, added a mentoring component to its suite of reentry support services. Readers will learn how 11 sites packaged this new component, who participated and what initial outcomes say about mentoring’s capacity for improving the lives of former inmates. Read More
Family Ties: Analysis From a State-By-State Survey of Kinship Care Policies An Executive Summary A survey of state kinship care policies identifies opportunities to strengthen support for caregivers and children. Read the analysis. Read More
Funding Effective Implementation of Evidence-Based Programs in Child Welfare This brief shares eight strategies to help child welfare agency administrators and partners fund and sustain evidence-based programs that benefit children and families. These strategies — presented in the context of a stage-based framework — consider the costs, funding streams, partnerships and allocation of resources that are both specific to child welfare systems and necessary for effective implementation. Read More
The Latinx Data Gap in the Youth Justice System This report examines racial and ethnic data at state-level youth justice agencies. It documents inconsistent data categories and reporting practices among Hispanic and Latino youth. Read to find recommendations aimed at improving juvenile justice data. Read More
Parental Involvement in Education Policy Brief No. 3 This brief spotlights real-world practices, challenges and policy recommendations related to parental involvement in education. It is part of a series produced by the Family Strengthening Policy Center that aims to inspire new ways of thinking about families in low-income communities and how this thinking can impact policy. Read More
Focus on Children With Incarcerated Parents An Overview of the Research Literature Over 1.5 million children in the US have a parent in prison. Learn how parental prison time affects kids and what resources are available to help kids, caregivers and parents. Read More
The 2013 KIDS COUNT Data Book State Trends in Child Well-Being Tracking 16 indicators of child well-being, the 2013 KIDS COUNT Data Book finds that children in the United States continue to make gains in the areas of education and health despite a growing poverty rate. This year’s Data Book also offers expanded coverage of America’s youngest children, adding to the ongoing national conversation on early childhood education. Read More
Transforming Juvenile Probation Executive Summary A Vision for Getting It Right The Annie E. Casey Foundation lays out its vision for transforming juvenile probation into a focused intervention that promotes personal growth, positive behavior change and long-term success for youth who pose significant risks for serious offending. Read More
The 2012 KIDS COUNT Data Book State Trends in Child Well-Being The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2012 KIDS COUNT® Data Book shows both promising progress and discouraging setbacks for the nation’s children: While their academic achievement and health improved in most states, their economic well-being continued to decline. The new methodology reflects the tremendous advances in child development research since the first KIDS COUNT Data Book in 1990. Read More
