Job Training for Youth With Justice Involvement A Toolkit The National Youth Employment Coalition has released a tool kit aimed at fostering meaningful collaboration between professionals in the federal workforce development system and the juvenile justice system. Read More
Financial Coaching A New Approach to Asset Building Financial coaching is an emerging approach to help low-income families build financial assets. This report highlights a financial coaching approach and possible outcomes. Read More
Changing the Odds (2015) The Race for Results in Atlanta This report examines Atlanta and highlights how place and race present barriers that keep kids, particularly those of color, from reaching their full potential. Read More
Cost Avoidance The Business Case for Investing in Youth Aging Out of Foster Care This issue brief highlights the financial price tag to taxpayers of poor outcomes among youth exiting foster care. It analyzes costs in three areas: education, parenthood and justice system involvement. Read More
Responsible Demolition: A Baltimore Case Study with National Implications The East Baltimore Revitalization Initiative This report details the responsible redevelopment of blighted urban neighborhoods next to Johns Hopkins University including a national movement and new federal standards for working with lead paint structures. Read More
Overview: The JDAI Story Building a Better Juvenile Detention System Th is publication provides an overview of the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI), a multi-million dollar, five year, five-site experiment designed to streamline and rationalize local juvenile detention systems. Read More
What's Going On In There? Understanding the Adolescent Brain and Its Implication for Young People This fact sheet outlines brain research for teens and how kids in foster care are impacted during development by the lack of close relationships. Read More
Reading on Grade Level in Third Grade: How is it Related to High School Performance and College Enro A Longitudinal Analysis of Third-Grade Students in Chicago in 1996-97 and their Educational Outcomes Students who read well by 3rd grade succeed in life, but at what age do you intervene to ensure reading success? Read More
An Analysis of Racial/Ethnic Disproportionality & Disparity at the National, State, and County Level The brief discusses the efforts of the Casey-CSSP Alliance for Racial Equity in Child Welfare to reduce the disproportionate number of youth of color in the child welfare system. Read More
The Anchor Dashboard Aligning Institutional Practice to Meet Low-Income Community Needs Funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, this document accompanies Achieving the Anchor Promise: Improving Outcomes for Low-Income Children, Families and Communities, and provides infomation on dashboard indicators connected to anchor institutions. Read More
