This report summarizes the information exchange during a meeting of Making Connections site members from Atlanta, Louisville, Oakland and San Diego when these teams came together to exchange information, experience, and ideas about community ownership in neighborhood revitalization projects.
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Summary of Life-Skills Activities and Principles
This paper reviews the many programs and activities offered to increase and enhance the life skills of youth in care.
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Benefits of Using Youth Data
Surveys are a key tool for informing efforts to address pressing youth-facing issues. Read how.
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D.C. KIDS COUNT Data Snapshot
This D.C. KIDS COUNT Data Snapshot examines citywide achievement by the public school kids in Washington, D.C.
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Identifying Policy and Program Priorities for Helping Newcomers Learn English
This report recaps discussions from a September 2006 conference on adult literacy education in immigrant communities. It outlines strategies, priorities and collaboration opportunities aimed at helping our nation’s newest members learn English and — in turn — pursue deeper community bonds and brighter economic futures.
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Results From a National Survey of Service Providers
This report shares findings from a national survey conducted by the Aspen Institute Workforce Strategies Initiative. It tells how 340 organizations across the country are working to connect young adults with employment. Service providers reveal go-to strategies, common connection roadblocks and job qualities that matter most to America’s youngest workers. Readers will also learn about research opportunities, investment ideas and policy and practice improvements aimed at helping young adults succeed in today’s labor market.
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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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This 2006 fact sheet reviews community-building strategies and the limitations they may have because of unintended racial overtones.
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Reflections Forty Years Later
This publication recounts a one-day symposium convened in 2011 to remember and reconsider a historic reform campaign — the closure of Massachusetts’ entire network of juvenile reform schools in the early 1970s. The report provides a history of the campaign and its aftermath, summarizes the major themes and ideas presented at the symposium and details the conclusions and recommendations from group discussions.
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The Permanency Continuum Series
This complete 2-day training guide for social workers focuses specifically on achieving and sustaining permanency for children and youth in foster care through adoption.
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