Replicating Detention Reform Lessons from the Florida Detention Initiative This report compares two reform initiatives with nearly identical objectives yet drastically different final chapters. Readers will learn how officials successfully reduced local detention center populations and why a similar statewide effort failed just years later. Replicating Detention Reform is the 12th installment in a series devoted to identifying more effective, efficient alternatives to juvenile detention. Read More
Casey Connects: Spring 2001 Sharing Strategies for Using Data in Making Connections This issue of Casey Connects features three distinctive conferences highlighting Making Connections and the ever-expanding network of critical Casey partnerships. Read More
Has the Jury Reached a Verdict? States’ Early Experiences with Crowd Out under SCHIP This report shares results of a study that asked if states were concerned about crowd out under the State Children’s Health Insurance Program and, if so, how they were addressing these concerns. To complete this study, researchers conducted site visits and telephone interviews with representatives in 18 states. Read More
AdvoCasey: Spring 2001 Heavy Duty This issue of AdvoCasey examines options for providing tax breaks to those who need them most — poor and near-poor working families. Readers will also learn about critical housing needs nationwide and specific state-based efforts to connect residents to health care and better child care options. AdvoCasey is a seasonal Casey newsletter with themed issues that spotlight programs and policies making measurable differences in the lives of kids and families. Read More
School to Career and Postsecondary Education for Foster Care Youth Promising Practices, A Guide for Policymakers and Practitioners This report presents actual programs and services available for foster care youth to establish a pathway out of poverty to college and high-paying careers. Read More
Promoting and Sustaining Detention Reforms Readers will learn what sites did, didn’t do, and wish they had done differently to launch and sustain successful detention reforms in their jurisdictions. These hard-earned lessons stem from a multi-year, multi-site project conducted by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Called the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI), the project aimed to do just what its name suggests: Identify more effective, efficient alternatives to juvenile detention. Read More
Special Detention Cases 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). Read More
Walking our Talk in the Neighborhoods; Family to Family Tools 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. Read More
The Need for Self-Evaluation 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. Read More
Reducing Racial Disparities in Juvenile Detention This report explores racial disparities in juvenile confinement and outlines how we can create a fairer juvenile justice system for today’s minority youth. Read More
