A Practice Guide for State Advisory Groups #3
This detention reform practice guide is specifically designed for State Advisory Groups overseeing the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA), providing recommendations for ways to implement and lead an effective detention reform initiative.
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An Initiative to Improve Child Welfare Systems
This document explains why and how the Casey Foundation set out to improve child welfare systems and practices across the country and what the Foundation learned in the process.
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Exploring Development in the Field and Opportunities for Growth
In 2007, the Annie E. Casey Foundation convened two teams of experts to discuss parental incarceration and its impact on families. Beyond summarizing the key lessons from these sessions, this report also spells out what we still need to learn about the issue, where we can be doing more and how the Foundation has already invested in aiding these vulnerable children and families.
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Predatory Lending in Native American Communities
This report provides an overview of predatory lending practices aimed at Native Americans across the United States and the work being done by five Native nations to help fight this growing problem.
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challenges and opportunities
This report tackles the issue of detention reform in rual areas and supports the ideal that children everywhere—regardless of their zip code—deserve to be treated fairly when facing detention. It shares lessons learned from a multiyear, multisite project conducted by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Called the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI), the project aimed to do just what its name suggests: identify more effective, efficient alternatives to juvenile detention.
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Succession Planning for Nonprofits
This publication presents emergency succession planning tools (an important “risk management” practice). It offers executive directors guidance on when and how to leave an organization, and includes suggestions for boards to assure the sustainability of their organizations.
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Beyond the Nonprofit Leadership Crisis
In this monograph, the authors counter a variety of proposed interventions from infrastructure organizations and present an alternate to the current crisis framework. The authors posit that by applying a crisis framework to the transitional trends in the non-profit sector, leadership ignores the rich opportunities that lay ahead.
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This report describes and assesses the efforts of local members of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership to promote collaboration among local school readiness service providers in eight cities.
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Trends in Women's Employment, 1970 to 2008
This report, which spans nearly 40 years of women's employment trends, is the first major study of women's employment trends to tease out differences between rural and urban women's work.
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The Status of American Indian & Alaska Native Children & Families Today
This report by the National Urban Indian Family Coalition discusses the status of American Indian and Alaskan Native families today.
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