Lessons Learned from Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice
This paper takes a hard look at how America’s juvenile justice and child welfare systems are faring—and where they are failing—in helping at-risk youth successfully transition to adulthood.
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Effects of a Community College Program for Probationary Students
This report examines the findings of an evaluation of two community college programs – Opening Doors and Enhanced Opening Doors – at Chaffey College in Southern California.
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Guidelines for Child Welfare
This publication shares guidelines for improving the behavioral health of youth in state custody. Child welfare experts, behavioral health leaders, and child and youth advocates developed this guidance as part of a 2-day conference convened by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Casey Family Programs and The REACH Institute.
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Growing Up Healthy with WIC
This brief highlights the impact of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) on very young children.
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Child Poverty in Rural America
This report takes a hard look at poverty in urban and rural communities. It makes a clear case for why policymakers should look beyond the urban landscape — and to the American countryside — when creating services and programs aimed at helping rural children in need.
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A KIDS COUNT Working Paper
This report uses the 10 KIDS COUNT indicators to assess increases and decreases in absolute child well-being. View the data for each state since 2000.
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The Different Story of Delinquent Youth as Told by the Media and by Juvenile Justice System Professionals and the Youth Themselves
This report examines the youth perspective on violence, life circumstance, and the response of the justice system to a supposed growth of violence among troubled youth.
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Children in Immigrant Families Chart New Path
The vast majority of the 16 million children in America's immigrant families are U.S. citizens who were born in the United States to foreign-born parents. The well-being of children in immigrant families varies based on their parents' country of origin, education, and the circumstances of their migration to the United States.
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Case Studies in Action
Using several case studies, this report delves into a more holistic understanding of what’s involved in community renewal and stabilization as government-led agencies try to restore neighborhoods devastated by the 2009 foreclosure crisis.
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Lessons Learned from KIDS COUNT Grantee Experiences
This document focuses on what it takes for KIDS COUNT and other policy advocates to address the theoretical steps of evaluating their work and how to apply these steps in real work.
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