Coming Home: From Prison to the Community with the Help of Faith This document summarizes what was learned about faith-based community re-entry programs from the multiple reports funded by the Foundation for its Making Connections initiative. It also highlights the impact incarceration has on the families of those who are incarcerated. Read More
Engaging Youth in Community Change A Making Connections Peer Technical Assistance Match between Hartford, CT; Providence, RI; and Boston, MA Documentation of a “peer match” between Making Connections’ Providence, Rhode Island and Hartford, Connecticut site teams with MYTOWN, a Boston-based non-profit that engages youth in civic education and advocacy projects. Read More
Reviewing State Housing Policy with a Child-Centered Lens Opportunities for Engagement and Intervention This report uses Casey’s Poverty, Permanence and Place framework to analyze state housing policy and its ability to help impoverished families. Read More
Community Building to Drive Change 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. Read More
Building Family Economic Success: The High Cost of Being Poor Research indicates that low-income families are paying substantially more for basic goods and services relative to their middle-class counterparts. This fact sheet hits the issue’s disturbing highlights and details how the Annie E. Casey Foundation is supporting efforts to drive down prices paid by struggling families. Read More
Reports on Rural America Demographic Trends in Rural and Small Town America This report takes a long look at the changing face of rural America. It highlights overall population trends and pinpoints the role that various factors have played in shaping small-town USA. Read More
Casey Connects: Winter 2000 This issue of Casey Connects concentrates on the value of community with the rollout of a new neighborhood initiative and the announcement of seven community-based organizations as Families Count honorees. Read More
Casey Connects: Fall 2002 Partnerships Creating an "Echo Chamber" of Family Strengthening Messages This issue of Casey Connects highlights family strengthening partnerships and FAMILIES COUNT honorees for promoting the family strengthening message as a national priority. Read More
Journey to Engagement A First-Person Reflection on How to Engage Residents In this report Garland Yates, Making Connections Site Team Leader in Denver, provides a firsthand account of his observations on the importance of engaging residents in community change. This report is part of “The Diarist Project” series of stories and reflections about the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Making Connections Initiative. Read More
We Want to Know What They Are Saying A Multiagency Collaborative Effort to Address Parental Language Barriers and Disproportionate Minority Contact This report highlights a multiagency collaborative effort to help parents with limited English proficiency understand their role in the juvenile justice system, ultimately toward a goal of increased parental participation regardless of language. Read More