The Health of the Human Services Workforce Human services workers are often under intense pressure with access to only few resources. This report identifies the gap between what human services workers are asked to do, and their capacity for effectively delivering on those duties. Read More
Guiding Sustainable Community Change An Introduction to Coaching This guide provides an overview to the concept and the practice of coaching for community change endeavors. It explicitly highlights how coaching differs from other community change efforts as well as discusses the ways in which coaching can add value to ongoing community change efforts. Read More
KIDS COUNT Indicator Brief: Reducing the Child Poverty Rate This brief outlines five strategies for moving families out of poverty and toward financial stability. Read More
Family to Family: Lessons Learned Tools for Rebuilding Foster Care This report summarizes the lessons learned by the Casey Foundation in its implemetation of a reformed foster care strategy in which child welfare agencies work with families and communities to ensure child placements close to home. Read More
Controlling the Front Gates Effective Admission Policies and Practices This report is packed with examples and suggestions to help jurisdictions to make fair, efficient and rational decisions about the detention center admission process. It is part of a series that shares lessons learned from a multi-year, multi-site 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. Read More
Casey Connects: Summer 2008 Shining a Light on Poverty — and Efforts to Combat It This issue of Casey Connects highlights the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s big picture efforts to reduce poverty in America. In addition, readers will learn about Casey-supported initiatives aimed at curbing poverty in Connecticut, Maryland and Rhode Island. A smaller story outlines 2008 KIDS COUNT Data Book findings and recommendations related to juvenile justice reform. Read More
Parental Incarceration and Child Wellbeing in Fragile Families This brief summarizes family economic, family stability and child development outcomes based on a multi-year national study of fragile families. Read More
Connecting Families to Jobs A Guide to Key Ideas, Effective Approaches, and Technical Assistance Resources for the Making Connections Cities and Site Teams. A comprehensive guide to strategies for connecting low-income workers to jobs that pay family-supporting wages and provide flexibility and assistance to parents raising children. Read More
ARC Reflections Facilitator Guide to Session Seven Respond, Don't React This ARC Reflections Training Curriculum walks a facilitator — slide by slide — through each session’s content. Session seven helps facilitators show caregivers how to find and grow their ability to stay calm in the midst of trying circumstances. Caregivers learn to understand where behaviors come from and engage in strategies that work. Read More
Lifelong Families Reunification Case Study Rudy A case study to illustrate how Lifelong Families – a practice model developed and tested by the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s former direct service agency – helped advance permanency outcomes for older youth in treatment foster care. This case study highlights how Rudy achieved permanence through reunification with his birth family. Read More
