National Youth in Transition Database Lessons Learned from the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative The National Youth Transition Database (NYTD) allows for states to learn how to improve outcomes for youth exiting foster care. This document — a pep-talk packaged in a publication — shares lessons learned from implementing a similar tool called the Opportunity Passport Participant Survey. Read More
Social Capital and Social Geography This report explores how social capital and social geography affect the economic and overall well-being of families. Read More
Hard Times Made Harder Struggling Caregivers and Child Neglect Using data from a national survey, this brief links specific caregiver struggles to a higher incidence of out-of-home placements among neglected children. It closes with one clear recommendation: Offer integrated — and early — caregiver support services to help counter this trend and better aid America’s at-risk children and families. Read More
Peer Networking and Place-Based Initiatives This report — a thought paper rooted in 47 interviews with industry leaders — highlights what we’ve learned about utilizing peer networking to advance recent place-based initiatives. It then shapes these lessons into 10 solid strategies for successfully incorporating peer networking into the new multiyear, mutli-million dollar Building Healthy Communities project. Read More
Children of Immigrants: 2008 State Trends Update Brief 17 This brief presents trends about children of immigrants, including links to race, poverty and education. Read More
Paying for College: Availability of Need-based Financial Aid for New Jersey's Working Adults This policy brief identifies the challenges that low-income working adults in New Jersey encounter when they pursue a college education – including access to adequate financial aid. Read More
Immigration Enforcement and Family Separation This one-page brief examines the impact of enforcement raids on immigrant children and their families. Read More
Undocumented and Abused: A Texas Case Study Children in the Child Protective Services System Using Texas as a case study, this report looks at undocumented children in state child welfare systems because of abuse or neglect – and ways to improve the process by which these children may obtain legal residency. Read More
Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Children in the Child Welfare System What Every Policymaker Should Know This report examines the mental health needs of young children — birth to age 5 — in the child welfare system and the barriers to accessing services to address these needs. Also included are recommendations for policymakers and providers in order to protect this vulnerable population. Read More
The Unequal Distribution of Child Poverty Highest Rates Among Young Blacks and Children of Single Mothers in Rural America This report examines poverty rates throughout the United States based on race and family structure for children of all ages as well as by place and region for children under age 6. Read More
