How Three Model Sites are Implementing the Center for Working Families Approach
This report presents insights into three successful programs showing how they have adopted the CWF approach in response to different local circumstances and opportunities.
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Bringing Pennsylvania’s Young People Safely Home from Juvenile Justice Placements
This report by the Juvenile Law Center, funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, provides research and recommendations to support bringing Pennsylvania’s young people safely home from juvenile justice placements.
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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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The First Two Years of Atlanta’s Dunbar Learning Complex
This report tells how a group of parents, educators, community-based service providers, funders and education experts created the Dunbar Learning Complex with the goal of permanently changing the path of children living in poverty. It also shares the impact of those efforts on children and their parents two years later.
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Investing in Qualitative Case Reviews for Practice Improvement in Child Welfare
This report—the first field-study of its kind—evaluates an increasingly popular performance-monitoring tool, the Qualitative Case Review (QCR), while offering tips for enhancing its implementation and use in child welfare systems nationwide.
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Children in Immigrant Families Chart New Path
The vast majority of the 16 million children in America's immigrant families are U.S. citizens who were born in the United States to foreign-born parents. The well-being of children in immigrant families varies based on their parents' country of origin, education, and the circumstances of their migration to the United States.
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Improving Practice to Improve Outcomes
Using a unique consulting approach, the Annie E. Casey Foundation collaborated with the State of Indiana to drastically refocus its child welfare practice. This case study outlines the reform efforts undertaken by Indiana with Casey's guidance, helping the state build one of the nation's stronger child welfare systems.
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Reflecting on the Children and Family Fellowship
Strong results-driven leaders have made a lasting difference for children, families and communities. Read what they have to say.
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Another Perspective on Helping Low-Income Families Get By and Get Ahead
Working and raising a family is hard, but it’s even harder — and more expensive — when you’re poor. This essay highlights the many ways that low-income households pay more for basic goods and services. It also spells out Casey’s four-pronged plan for helping America’s poorest workers move beyond living paycheck to paycheck to build a brighter — and more financially secure — future.
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A Guide for Child Welfare Agencies
The Trauma Systems Therapy for Foster Care (TST-FC) training curriculum gives child welfare agencies a powerful new tool that foster parents can use to support children in their care and help them heal.
This guide is a primer for child welfare agencies planning to install the curriculum within their existing array of in-service foster care trainings. It is packed with implementation tips, tools and details — including recommended trainer competencies, a sample data summary report and sample posters introducing TST-FC and trauma.
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