This article, which originally appeared in the spring 2002 issue of AdvoCasey, tells how a nonprofit in Tulsa, Okla., is helping working poor families avoid expensive tax preparers, maximize refunds and save for the future.
The Foundation produced AdvoCasey as a seasonal publication with themed issues that spotlight programs and policies making measurable differences in the lives of kids and families.
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Car Ownership as an Asset Building Strategy for Reducing Transportation Related Barriers to Work
This report explores seven of the more promising car ownership programs across the United States designed to help improve mobility and job access for the working poor and welfare recipients.
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A Model for a Neighborhood-Focused Employment Program
This report presents a model for implementing a neighborhood-focused workforce development strategy.
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Part One, Building Support for Child Welfare’s Frontline Workers
This manual discusses tools, skills, issues and dilemmas related to safety for child welfare professionals who work with families in their homes and neighborhoods.
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Reflections on the Rebuilding Communities Initiative
This paper is intended to reflect and capture the lessons learned in the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Rebuilding Communities Initiative, a seven-year initiative launched in 1994 to provide support to help transform troubled, destitute neighborhoods into safe, supportive and productive environments for children and their families.
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Assessing the Progress of Responsible Fatherhood Efforts
This report lays out the chronological history of the responsible fatherhood movement, its accomplishments and the challenges it faces in policy, research and funding moving forward.
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A decade of city and state trends
This working paper — which updates previous Right Start reports — looks at eight healthy birth measures from 1990 to 1999. It examines these measures at the state level, nationwide and by grouping together America’s 50 largest cities.
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The document provides information about serving young offenders, including the focus of the juvenile justice system and how youth development approaches are useful in working with this population. It includes examples of promising programs and policies targeting court-involved youth.
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Toward a More Disciplined Approach to Community Building
This report introduces two new guides, the Process Framework and the Structural Framework, that aim to bring order to the very organic enterprise that is resident-empowered change. The text — which dives deeply into Casey’s Making Connections initiative in Denver — also pitches a strong case for using these two frameworks to help move community building from a intuition-driven journey to a more disciplined and sustainable field of practice.
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Findings from the Annie E. Casey's Jobs Initiative
This report summarizes key outcomes and lessons from the Casey Foundation's Jobs Initiative, which emphasized workforce development reforms on behalf of low-skilled job seekers.
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