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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This report attempts to gage the meaning, depth and effectiveness of family strengthening efforts in the myriad Native American Indian communities. Hint: if it isn’t home-grown, it isn’t embraced.
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Reflections on the Rebuilding Communities Initiative
This paper is intended to reflect and capture the lessons learned in the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Rebuilding Communities Initiative, a seven-year initiative launched in 1994 to provide support to help transform troubled, destitute neighborhoods into safe, supportive and productive environments for children and their families.
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Child Health and Safety in Canada, the United States and Mexico
This report examines the health status of children in Canada, the United States and Mexico, notes similarities and disparities in child health on several key indicators and highlights the challenges facing youth across North America. The report was developed collaboratively by The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Red Por Los Derechos de la Infancia en Mexico and the Canadian Council on Social Development.
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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.
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How a county government uses integrated data to improve services for homeless mothers and their children and implement a pioneering public-private funding partnership
This case study is one in a series of briefs that show how local jurisdictions can invest in and use integrated data systems (IDS) to improve policies, programs and practice. This case study presents a public-private partnership in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, using an IDS to design, finance and evaluate a program to help homeless mothers reunite more quickly with their children placed in foster care.
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The Long-Term Earnings Gap
This report, rooted in original research, wastes no time debunking rosy notions of gender equality. It shows that women earn far less than their male counterparts over the long term. It also tells how too many women — but few men — have low lifelong earnings.
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Neighborhood Workforce Pipelines
This report is a comprehensive guide to building jobs “pipelines” from low-income neighborhoods to city-wide and/or regional employment sectors in ways that benefit residents and employers.
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Creating Successful Futures for Children and Families
Seattle was the home of UPS founder Jim Casey and his siblings, who created the Annie E. Casey Foundation in honor of their mother and committed it to serving disadvantaged kids. This publication features some of the Casey projects and partnerships that reflect that commitment, including Seattle Jobs Initiative, a decade-long effort to link low-income men and women with a living wage; Making Connections White Center, which demonstrates how communities and residents can lead efforts to improve tough neighborhoods; and Thrive by Five, a public-private partnership that aims to improve, expand and promote early childhood education in the state.
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A Guide to Juvenile Detention Reform
True to its title, this report aims to help jurisdictions embed the goals of the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) into state law. How it does this—by pairing an expansive collection of policy excerpts with helpful tips and a tool for assessing existing strategies—allows sites to create a customized game plan for advancing the tenets of JDAI reform.
JDAI—a product of the Annie E. Casey Foundation—is a multi-year, multi-site effort to create a safer, fairer detention system while championing the use of more effective, efficient alternatives to secure confinement.
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