Building the Best Evidence-Based Practices for Children of Color
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This case study examines the role of culture in informing and enhancing efforts to level life’s playing field for children of color. Readers will learn how organizations are applying evidence-based practices in culturally relevant ways and how local programs are adopting nontraditional approaches to successfully serve communities of color.
Considering Culture is the fourth installment in a five-part Race for Results case study series.
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How a county and a state are using IDS data and predictive modeling to help case managers identify the most-at-risk families and individuals and improve child welfare and health care outcomes
This brief discusses how jurisdictions used Integrated Data Systems to develop predictive modeling tools that expedited case management services.
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How a county government uses integrated data to improve services for homeless mothers and their children and implement a pioneering public-private funding partnership
This case study is one in a series of briefs that show how local jurisdictions can invest in and use integrated data systems (IDS) to improve policies, programs and practice. This case study presents a public-private partnership in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, using an IDS to design, finance and evaluate a program to help homeless mothers reunite more quickly with their children placed in foster care.
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How two states are working to improve outcomes for children in foster care through the strategic use of integrated data
This brief discusses improvements for kids in foster care in Wisconsin and Washington due to the strategic use of integrated data in their child-focused systems.
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How nonprofit organizations in two localities use IDS data to improve their enrollees’ school performance and strengthen collective impact
This case study is one in a series of briefs that show how to invest in and use integrated data systems (IDS) in local jurisdictions to improve policies, programs and practice. This brief presents out-of-school collective impact initiatives in North Carolina and Texas and their use of data from a local IDS to improve educational outcomes for their enrollees and allocate resources more effectively.
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Addressing Race and Cultural Competence in the Jobs Initiative
Launched in 1995, the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Jobs Initiative aimed to boost employment options for young Americans living in low-income communities in six cities. This report looks at how the initiative’s participating sites approached hiring and retention inequities related to race and ethnicity. Readers will learn the successes and challenges of their efforts to address cultural competence and what strategies the sites developed to expand opportunities for job seekers and workers of color.
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Insights From the Annual Results Reports
This results report draws on eight years of data from Casey’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative. It tells how participating sites have achieved significant and — in many cases — long-lasting reductions in rates of juvenile incarceration and juvenile crime.
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Executive Summary
This resource-packed playbook shares examples and advice aimed at helping Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) sites forge effective partnerships with law enforcement agencies on a number of fronts — from detention screenings to trainings on adolescent development.
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Facilitator’s Guide for Module One of TST-FC
This facilitator guide helps trainers explain trauma and its effects on children, as part of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Trauma Systems Therapy series.
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Facilitator’s Guide for Module Two of TST-FC
This facilitator guide trains caregivers on using Trauma Systems Therapy to promote healing in children with trauma histories.
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