Stable housing may be a short- and long-term solution for helping released prisoners successfully re-enter society, but more research is needed.
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Final Results from the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Transitional Jobs Program
This report outlines and evaluates the results of the Center for Employment Opportunity program, which aims to help former prisoners improve their job prospects and reduce the chances of landing back in jail.
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Evolving Perspectives on Residential Placement
This report discusses the recent acknowledgement that kids need a sense of belonging to a family and the consequences when they are taken out of the home for safety concerns.
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Collaboration for Change, Part Two
The criminal justice system interacts with many of the same families involved in the child welfare system and while it makes sense that these systems would work together, too often they do not. This guide describes ways that the two systems can work together to improve and strengthen family and community bonds.
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Views of Early Adolescents and the Adults in their Lives
This study draws on interviews with foster children and adults to better understand how being in foster care affects a child’s education on a day-to-day basis.
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Strategies for the Atlanta Civic Site
This brief summarizes Casey’s decade-long involvement in improving community viability and family life in a distressed section of Atlanta, Georgia.
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Recommendations for the Federal Initiative
This report explains how to implement the Federal Promise Neighborhoods initiative using Results-Based Accountability.
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A FrameWorks Message Memo
This FrameWorks report offers specific, tested recommendations to build public understanding of juvenile justice reform. A related toolkit explains how to implement the recommendations using examples from the juvenile justice field.
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KIDS COUNT Data Book Urges Support for Family-Based Child Care
This issue of Casey Connects summarizes findings from the 2006 KIDS COUNT Data Book and essay. More specifically: It tells what we should do — and what select programs are already doing — to help improve the quality of family, friend and neighbor care across America.
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An Analysis of Impact and Remaining Need Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
The federal Recovery Act only addresses some of the economic needs of tribal communities in Indian Country. This paper examines what a meaningful recovery would look like for historically marginalized Native communities. It contrasts the need and the federal investment in two general and 10 tribal-specific program investments.
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