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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Baltimore's Five-Year Action Plan for Achieving School Readiness
This report outlines the Baltimore, Maryland, Leadership in Action Program’s recommended strategies for helping to improve school readiness for the children of Baltimore.
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Findings From the National School Readiness Indicators Initiative
This report tells the story of the National School Readiness Indicators Initiative, a 17-state effort that produced a master list of critical school readiness measures. It also shares what participating states learned about using these indicators to inform policies and help kids succeed.
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A Guide to Key Ideas, Effective Approaches, and TA Resources for When Prisoners Return to the Community
This prisoner reentry report provides community-based, family strengthening solutions to help prisoners after release. Learn more about help for released prisoners now.
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A Guide to Key Ideas, Effective Approaches, and Technical Assistance Resources for Making Connections Cities and Site Teams
The document provides an overview of the importance of involving fathers in family strengthening efforts, the key elements of effective fatherhood programs and examples of programs and resource organizations for fatherhood programs.
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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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This report looks at the enormity of the substance abuse problem in the United States andexplores how religion may be the best hope for a solution in ethnic communities.
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Elders as Resources Intergenerational Strategies Series
This report presents the background on kinship care and the challenges facing kinship caregivers.
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Profiles of Promising Practices
This report shows how colleges and universities can become economic anchors for their local communities. It was written to encourage institutions of higher education to think about the economic anchor role in a cohesive and coordinated manner and not as a piecemeal afterthought.
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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.
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