ARC Reflections Facilitator Guide for Session One Understanding Trauma The ARC Reflections training curriculum walks a facilitator — slide by slide — through a session’s content. Session One focuses on understanding the types of trauma, how some trauma exposures are less obvious than others and how trauma influences the behaviors of kids and teens in foster care. Read More
Race Matters: Community Building Strategies This 2006 fact sheet reviews community-building strategies and the limitations they may have because of unintended racial overtones. Read More
The Promise and Challenge of Mentoring High-Risk Youth Findings from the National Faith-Based Initiative This report leverages the experiences of four faith-based organizations that developed mentorship programs aimed at supporting older, high-risk youth. Readers will explore data-driven findings, moves to make and challenges to consider when designing similar programs that connect caring adults with youth whose lives have veered off track. Read More
Ensuring Success for Young Children Early Childhood Literacy This discussion guide for small foundations explores strategies for supporting nonprofits that provide early childhood education programs and services, especially those that focus on early childhood literacy and reading at grade level by third grade. Read More
Eminent Domain: Implications for Community Redevelopment Efforts The Casey Foundation convened people on both sides of the eminent domain issue to see how to support rather than displace affected families. The discussion produced a set of guiding principles outlined in this report. Read More
The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in Achieving the Six Core Results This summary document describes how faith-based organizations can develop services and programs to meet the economic and other needs of low-income individuals and families living in their communities. Read More
The Long Road From C.J. Peete to Harmony Oaks This report summarizes how McCormack Baron Salazar, a development firm, and its nonprofit subsidiary, Urban Strategies, involved residents in an 18-month redevelopment of New Orleans’ C.J. Peete public housing complex after Katrina. Read More
Building Assets, Strengthening Families in Baltimore This report provides an overview of the key components of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s financial stability activities for low-income families in Baltimore and, increasingly, the state of Maryland. It is a case study of how this multipronged strategy has been developed and implemented in Baltimore and offers insights for others doing this important work in their communities. Read More
Using Integrated Data Systems to Strengthen Collective Impact in Out-Of-School Programs How nonprofit organizations in two localities use IDS data to improve their enrollees’ school performance and strengthen collective impact This case study is one in a series of briefs that show how to invest in and use integrated data systems (IDS) in local jurisdictions to improve policies, programs and practice. This brief presents out-of-school collective impact initiatives in North Carolina and Texas and their use of data from a local IDS to improve educational outcomes for their enrollees and allocate resources more effectively. Read More
Family to Family: Our Work Flyer This document provides an overview of the Foundation's Family to Family initiative. It lists the principles, outcomes, goals and strategies of the initiative. Read More
