This report explores the ways in which implementation of the Affordable Care Act enables agencies serving low-income households to streamline and modernize their own systems in order to ensure families are accessing all the services for which they are eligible.
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Strengthening Workplace Education Program Policies to Enable Low-Wage Workers' Advancement
This policy brief revisits a few programs covered in an earlier report on workplace education programs, and highlights other programs that improve basic skills, literacy and english language skills.
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Access to Healthcare in Wisconsin for Immigrant Children and Families
From flu shots to school physicals, basic medical care is vital to growing up healthy. Yet, for immigrant families, the hurdles to health care can be steep. This policy brief is set in Wisconsin but packed with statistics, stories and solutions that cross all geographic boundaries. Its main message? We must do more to connect America’s immigrant families with quality, timely medical care — and here’s how.
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Three Strategies for Changing Juvenile Justice
This report reviews the history and development of three juvenile justice reform strategies and analyzes their impact on policy, practice and public safety.
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Outcomes at Age 26
This report, a product of the Midwest Study, analyzes how former foster care youth are faring at age 26. It reviews survey results on a wide range of issues — everything from employment records and academic experiences to family relationships and pregnancy rates.
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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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Faith, Forgiveness, Fragile Relationships, and Responsible Fatherhood
This issue of Casey Connects spotlights four initiatives that the Annie E. Casey Foundation has invested in for the last decade: aiding the formerly incarcerated, promoting responsible fatherhood, supporting healthy relationships and tapping into the strengths of faith-based organizations. The end goal in each of these efforts is the same: Give kids in tough communities a better shot at success.
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What We Know About Improving Developmental Education
This report, powered by 40 years of research and writings on developmental education, opens with a sobering look at the struggles community colleges face in advancing remedial-level students into successful college careers. Readers will learn about four current strategies for reforming the field of developmental education as well as innovative next steps that hold the promise for more radical change.
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Strengthening State Policies and Practices
This report outlines the need for employers, nonprofits and policy makers to align resources and systems to create or strengthen programs — such as apprenticeships — to train low-skill adults for jobs that can help their families achieve financial stability.
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System Deficiencies and Unknown Outcomes
This report spotlights pediatric behavioral health services available through Virginia’s Secretary of Health and Human Resources. It describes a system that is punctuated by wait lists, inadequate services, silos of data and a scant focus on producing concrete results for some of the state’s most vulnerable kids.
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