to Support Young Children, Their Families, and School Readiness
This tool kit provides resources, strategies and guidance to help communities achieve cultural and linguistic competence across all programs that help families with young children, toward a goal of promoting healthy early childhood development and school readiness.
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Snapshots of America’s Families III
This snapshot uses national survey results to analyze how health insurance coverage rates and health status responses differ by race and ethnicity. It finds that disparities still persist — and that Hispanic kids are faring markedly worse than both their black and white peers.
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How Practitioners Engage Parents, Families and Youth Around Reproductive and Sexual Health
This report summarizes focus group feedback from 54 adolescent reproductive health service providers. It describes common Parent and Family Engagement (PFE) activities and challenges. It also identifies technical supports that providers must have to effectively serve young people and their reproductive health needs.
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Who’s Taking Care: AdvoCasey Examines the Staffing Crisis in Children and Family Services
This issue of AdvoCasey examines the pervasive neglect of human services workers in America. It’s centerpiece — a feature rooted in Greenville, South Carolina — goes beyond the statistics to share real stories about how these workers are struggling and what this means for the kids and families they serve.
AdvoCasey is a seasonal publication; each themed issue spotlights programs and policies that have made measurable differences in the lives of kids and families.
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A Report to the Field
This report — the result of a United Way of America survey and working group — reflects the organization’s staunch commitment to helping vulnerable families utilize the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). It offers field-tested advice, square-one strategies and EITC program facts as part of a larger effort to help United Way sites across the country support local EITC campaigns.
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This two-page report introduces a program designed to help women open their own residential child care businesses. Called CARE, the initiative delivers a rare win-win: employment and empowerment for at-risk women and a new economic anchor for financially-fragile communities.
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This four-page Kids Count snapshot spotlights what life is like for children on the Texas border. Readers will review the longstanding challenges facing Texas border residents and learn about new opportunities and key indicators for child well-being in these communities.
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Findings from the National Faith-Based Initiative
This report leverages the experiences of four faith-based organizations that developed mentorship programs aimed at supporting older, high-risk youth. Readers will explore data-driven findings, moves to make and challenges to consider when designing similar programs that connect caring adults with youth whose lives have veered off track.
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Roundtable on Community Change Working Paper Series
This publication explores the game-changing role that race plays in our country’s politics, economy and culture. It delivers clear examples, recommendations and discussion points aimed at helping the youth field address structural racism and forge a brighter, fairer path for America’s future.
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Listening to Families in Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee
This report shares feedback from 116 focus group participants with limited resources in rural Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee. Researchers used this feedback to identify the challenges and supports that these families experience and to outline strategies for advancing their opportunities in four key areas: services and supports, educational opportunity, economic opportunity and social networks.
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