The Impact of Incarcerating Youth in Detention and Other Secure Facilities
This policy brief looks at the consequences of detention on kids and communities and the positive results coming from Casey’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI).
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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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Understanding the Role of Social Networks in Strengthening Families and Transforming Communities
This report examines research and observations around the power of social networks, including the relationship between social networks and key results of the Making Connections initiative.
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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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This report documents the progress and lessons learned through the East Baltimore Revitalization Initiative, a large-scale community and economic development project to transform a distressed property into a vital residential and business community.
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What We Know, What We Can Do
This paper explores the role of kinship care for children of parents currently incarcerated; examining the involvement of the child welfare system, and describing what can be done to develop more compassionate social policies and programs geared toward this population.
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Ensuring Community Voice and Expertise Guide Us
In Baltimore, organizations were hitting hurdles in their efforts to connect young people to training and job opportunities. Enter the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which invested in a participatory research pilot to capture both authentic community voices and the employment experiences of local youth.
This report shares what the Casey Foundation learned from Baltimore residents — both interviewees and consultants — and delivers a road map for implementing similar research and engagement models.
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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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Nearly one in five children involved in the child welfare system spends time in a residential facility. Yet, research indicates that these residential settings do not prepare kids to develop needed family relationships to guide their social and emotional development.
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Impacts of the Great Recession on Affordability and Multifamily Lending
Despite record-high vacancy rates and falling rents in some areas, the Great Recession did little to halt the long-term erosion of rental housing affordability. The number of financially stressed renters has expanded, while affordable housing available to these households has shrunk.
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