Examining the Impact of Economic Insecurity on Children and Families
This report takes all the factors associated with family economic stress and explain how they could affect the growth and development of children.
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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.
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Using Racial Equity Impact Assessments for Effective Policymaking
This case study examines the use of Racial Equity Impact Assessments in crafting equitable public policy. It is the third installment in the Casey Foundation's Race for Results case study series.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Systems Leaders Data Tool Kit
This tool kit, created by the Annie E. Casey Foundation with help from the Center for the Study of Social Policy and more than 20 national experts, assists systems leaders in gathering, assessing, sharing and leveraging data on expectant and parenting youth in foster care. The end goal? A better, brighter future for these families.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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