Pursuing Permanent Children for Families and Youth
This issue of Casey Connects spotlights the Foundation’s efforts on 2 fronts: 1) helping kids in foster care find loving, permanent families; and 2) reducing racial disparities throughout the child welfare system. A smaller story recognizes 6 movers and shakers in the child welfare field, including 4 former Families Count honorees.
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Influence, Impact, & Leverage
This report presents a long-term review showcasing the development of the fatherhood movement and the Casey Foundation’s role in positively changing policy, attitudes and lives.
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A Guide to Connecting, Giving and Asset Building
This report describes the practice of tithing within low-income congregations and illustrates how tithing is tied to asset building, based on interviews with clergy and congregation members. It includes brief summaries of different types of congregations.
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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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Improving Economic and Child Outcomes in Milwaukee
In 1994, Milwaukee implemented a two-year program, New Hope, that provided low-income working families with a flexible package of earnings supplements and services. The results? Glorious. Parents benefited from a boost in employment and earnings. Equally noteworthy: Their kids — specifically their sons — had fewer behavioral issues and better academic success.
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Helping Young People Transition from Foster Care to Adulthood
This report reflects on the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative’s vision for building on its successes to help youth and young adults thrive socially, emotionally, financially, intellectually and physically.
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Making Connections Research Series
This report presents an analysis of Casey’s Making Connections initiative data that examines mobility among families in the initiative neighborhoods as well as the effects of family mobility on neighborhood improvement and decline.
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This report presents Casey’s experience and lessons around ways to navigate federal, state and local redevelopment policies while limiting the negative effects of involuntary displacement on those being affected. It outlines some of the major issues and challenges of responsible relocation.
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Extended Foster Care as a Catalyst for Improved Practices and Better Outcomes
This brief gives government jurisdictions advice and ideas on implementing quality oversight and review processes for young adults in extended foster care. It is a product of Success Beyond 18, a national campaign by the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative aimed at forging a better path for young people who are transitioning from foster care to adulthood.
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A KIDS COUNT Working Paper
This report outlines reasons that the U. S. Census population count misses so many young children and shows how that affects the political and economic structure for all.
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