strategies for handling difficult populations
This report tells sites how to reduce rates of unnecessary detention for three distinct groups of youth: minors with warrants, probation violators and post-adjudication detainees. It is a product of Casey's Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI).
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Partnerships Between Professional and Natural Helpers, Part Three
This paper shows how to create true, healthy reform for the families and children involved in the child welfare system by presenting the pros and cons of neighborhood helper/professional partnerships.
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Using Data to Guide Policy and Practice
This descriptive guide provides examples of data tools as they related to the self-evaluation process for Family to Family sites and child welfare services.
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This report explores racial disparities in juvenile confinement and outlines how we can create a fairer juvenile justice system for today’s minority youth.
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The Challenge of Drug Abuse in Child Welfare, Part Two (Summary)
This training guide summary is intended for child welfare professionals who are working with families that have drug and alcohol problems.
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Conference Focuses on Helping Adoptive Families
This issue of Casey Connects focuses on fabulous family well-being advocates with the listing of the National Families Count Honorees, the 2001 Casey Fellows class and other Casey-recognized movers and shakers.
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A Kids Count/PRB Report on the 2000 Census
This report highlights data about American children from the 2000 U.S. Census, including demographic changes from the 1990s.
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The Challenge of Drug Abuse in Child Welfare, Part Three
This document highlights the work of the Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams (START) in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. START is a program that incorporates addiction-services treatment, good child welfare practice, and family preservation into case management.
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Using Data to Guide Policy and Practice
For many child welfare agencies data can be overwhelming and sometimes not useful. This document describes an attempt by the Family to Family Initiative to reinvent the way data in child welfare is used by creating better structures and processes for compiling data, conducting analyses, and linking data to evaluation.
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The Challenge of Drug Abuse in Child Welfare, Part One
This document describes what is known about the effects of crack cocaine on women and their children, ways of treating addiction, the challenges of engaging women in treatment and promising approaches at the system, program and worker level for working with drug-affected women.
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