The Case for Reducing Juvenile Incarceration
This issue brief summarizes a report which assembles decades of research as well as persuasive new data to demonstrate that America’s heavy reliance on juvenile incarceration has not paid off and, in fact, is a failed strategy for combating youth crime.
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A Proposal to Finance Best Practices
This report discusses the federal financing policy changes needed to make permanence an affordable priority for state child welfare agencies.
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National Summit on Authentic Youth Engagement
This two-page fact sheet presents the three core values and related guiding principles that the Jim Casey Youth Opportunity Initiative believes young people in foster care need to truly have a say in planning their own future. The key to making it work? Authentic partnerships with adults.
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Keeping Young People Safe at Home and Out of Youth Prisons
This report provides a clear blueprint for closing youth prisons and replacing them with community-based juvenile justice services. Readers will learn how this new system can hold youth accountable — without resorting to incarceration — while cultivating a young person’s strengths, interests and sense of belonging.
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The Providence Children and Youth Cabinet Story
This report examines how the Rhode Island’s Providence Children and Youth Cabinet (CYC) has changed since adopting the Evidence2Success® framework seven years ago. During this time frame, CYC transitioned from backbone organization to agile and independent intermediary.
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The Financial Crisis and Family Wealth Changes in Low-Income Neighborhoods
The recent financial crisis has shown the importance of asset building. This report sheds light on how families fared during the Great Recession, looking at those living in low-income neighborhoods who may see disproportionate effects from the crisis.
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A Collaborative Funding Model to Reduce Infant Mortality in Baltimore
After nearly a decade of work, the B’more for Healthy Babies initiative has helped to reduce infant mortality and improve the lives of thousands of parents and children in Baltimore. Central to its success? A funding approach, called collective impact.
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The $400 Billion Federal Asset-Building Budget
While the federal government poured millions of dollars into helping with asset building in 2009, this report shows how using the tax code for subsidies just helped the rich get richer.
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This report presents a discussion of what was learned from the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) about improving and maintaining safe, humane institutions. Attention is given to the impact of inadequate conditions. It also offers guiding principles, based on JDAI, for improving institutional conditions, developing and conducting an assessment, improving practices, and maintaining ongoing assessment.
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Of Children and Youth in the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems
Our current system of educational supports is failing youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. This wide-ranging report outlines the challenges, legislative landscape and promising evidence-based interventions. It closes with a clear call to action for all child-serving agencies
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