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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Special Report: May 2011
This special report takes a second look at Rhode Island’s dental safety net. It shares new statistics, successes and challenges and outlines 15 recommendations aimed at helping the state’s dental safety net continue to evolve and thrive.
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Atlanta Civic Site Brochure
This brochure describes Casey's investment in an impoverished section of Atlanta, Georgia, and invites partners to support expansion of the work.
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A Progress Report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation through December 2010
This snapshot speeds through nine years of an ambitious development project aimed at transforming Maryland’s East Baltimore neighborhood — home to disproportionally high rates of crime, unemployment and poverty. Readers will learn how the Foundation is helping to spearhead this charge in typical Casey style — by partnering with the local residents, listening to their needs and recognizing that true progress requires more than new fancy buildings to build brighter futures.
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A Report of the New York Initiative for Children of Incarcerated Parents
This report draws attention to the needs of children whose parents are in the criminal justice system, and describes how good support systems can minimize these children's trauma and harm, and, instead, support their resiliency and success.
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Racial and Ethnic Change in Metro America in the 2000s
The racial and ethnic distribution of population in the United States is changing, as the 2010 Census revealed. This report debunks old myths while revealing why cities and suburbs are becoming true melting pots.
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A Case for Parental Health Coverage in Mississippi
This brief tells how Mississippi’s work support system fails to support working families. Readers will learn about gaps in the state’s parental health insurance coverage and explore policy ideas aimed at addressing these gaps while also strengthening the health and economic security of low-income families.
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