2008-2009 Recruitment Initiative of Casey Family Services
This resource includes four separate documents outlining the conceptual framework for the recruitment initiative as well as the implementation and tracking of a nine-strategy plan to recruit foster and adoptive parents who matched the needs of youth in treatment foster care at Casey Family Services, the Foundation's former direct services agency. It includes an overall review of the recruitment practices, as well as forms and tools for setting agency recruitment goals concurrently with implementation of the agency’s Lifelong Families practice model. This model is intended to serve as a method of improving foster care practice within private child welfare agencies and advancing permanency outcomes for those in care, especially older youth in treatment foster care.
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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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Telephone Care Management for Medicaid Recipients with Depression, 36 Months After Random Assignment
This report examines a telephone care management program called Working Toward Wellness, which served depressed parents receiving Medicaid in Rhode Island. The 1-year program, which was active from 2004 to 2006, involved clinicians calling participants and encouraging them to seek out and sustain needed mental health care. Readers will learn about the intervention’s impact and discover if these parents were still benefiting from the program 2 years after its conclusion.
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Innovative Approaches for Individual Philanthropists and Small Family Foundations
There is no better time than today for a philanthropist to learn how to expand their horizons and join forces with every potential partner in every sector — including business and government.
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Analysis of the Research
This compendium includes papers from the July 2010 symposium convened by the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) and The Annie E. Casey Foundation to reflect on current research related to racial differences in child welfare services, treatment and outcomes.
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From Tax Credits to Subsidized Job Placements
This brief shows how a current tax credit program is not creating jobs and could be redirected into subsidized job opportunities.
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A Policy Brief Highlighting Job Creating Initiatives
This report summarizes the work of Big Ideas for Job Creation, a project of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California, Berkeley, which tapped into the innovative thinking of leading experts across the nation to develop job creation proposals.
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This report provides an overview of the key components of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s financial stability activities for low-income families in Baltimore and, increasingly, the state of Maryland. It is a case study of how this multipronged strategy has been developed and implemented in Baltimore and offers insights for others doing this important work in their communities.
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Metropolitan Trends in the 2000s
An analysis of data on neighborhood poverty suggests that the strong economy of the late 1990s did not permanently resolve the challenge of concentrated poverty. The slower economic growth of the 2000s, followed by the worst downturn in decades, led to increases in neighborhoods of extreme poverty once again.
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An index of reporting standards
This paper makes a clear case for revolutionizing reporting standards for group care programs. Readers will learn how the field’s current approach paints an all-to-generic picture of programs while failing to define what works—and what doesn’t—in terms of serving today’s youth. New comprehensive standards, introduced in this report, can both expand what we know about group care practice and inject some much-needed nuance into this muddied field.
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