Safety First: Dealing with the Daily Challenges of Child Welfare Part One, Building Support for Child Welfare’s Frontline Workers This manual discusses tools, skills, issues and dilemmas related to safety for child welfare professionals who work with families in their homes and neighborhoods. Read More
Wanted! A Narrative for Investing in Workforce Development As part of The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s two-year Workforce Narrative project, this report provides a framework for investing in workforce development policies and programs. Read More
Children with Incarcerated Parents A List of Select Resources Here are 36 selected resources to help parents, workers, and policymakers help kids stay connected to parents who are in prison. Read More
Managing Emotions Guide The Managing Emotions Guide, part of the Trauma Systems Therapy for Foster Care curriculum, spans three quick pages and asks simple questions that children can answer in an effort to better understand and control their emotions. Read More
Social Networks Make a Difference Family Economic Success This report — the fourth installment in a five-part series devoted to exploring the power of social networks — opens with an examination of the role that social connections play in supporting vulnerable households and family economic success. To research this issue, Casey experts turned to networking efforts already underway in their seminal 10-site community change initiative, Making Connections. Their findings, as outlined in this publication, identify three areas where social networking strategies hold great promise in aiding America’s distressed families. These are: asset building, jobs and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Read More
Detention Facility Self-Assessment A Practice Guide to Juvenile Detention Reform #2 This practice guide provides extensive instructions and checklists on conducting a secure detention facility self-inspection. Read More
Survey and Feedback Materials for TST-FC This document, part of the Trauma Systems Therapy for Foster Care curriculum, includes four short surveys designed to assess what caregivers and agency staff knew at the onset of training — and what they learned as a result of the training. A fifth item, a simple feedback form, asks facilitators what worked well — and what didn’t click — during their training sessions. Read More
Next Shift Beyond the Nonprofit Leadership Crisis In this monograph, the authors counter a variety of proposed interventions from infrastructure organizations and present an alternate to the current crisis framework. The authors posit that by applying a crisis framework to the transitional trends in the non-profit sector, leadership ignores the rich opportunities that lay ahead. Read More
Championing Change A Practitioner Guide for Leading Inclusive and Equity-Infused Rapid-Cycle Learning Rapid-cycle learning involves quickly testing strategies for program improvement and prioritizing equity from the get-go. Learn how it works. Read More
Money Pals, Part One Being Cool with Cash This workbook is designed to teach children in foster care, ages 8 to 11, practical skills about using money, Read More
