Foster Care Data Snapshot 2011
This Data Snapshot, by Casey-grantee Child Trends, uses data from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) provided by states from their child welfare administrative data systems on investigated reports of maltreatment.
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A Quality Improvement Toolkit
This tool kit shares the experiences of nine Medicaid managed care organizations which collaborated over a two-year period to identify better ways to care for youth with serious behavioral health needs. Its pages tell of quality-improvement strategies, challenges, lessons learned and care innovations worthy of a closer look.
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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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Telephone Care Management for Medicaid Recipients with Depression, 36 Months After Random Assignment
This report examines a telephone care management program called Working Toward Wellness, which served depressed parents receiving Medicaid in Rhode Island. The 1-year program, which was active from 2004 to 2006, involved clinicians calling participants and encouraging them to seek out and sustain needed mental health care. Readers will learn about the intervention’s impact and discover if these parents were still benefiting from the program 2 years after its conclusion.
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Trends in Women's Employment, 1970 to 2008
This report, which spans nearly 40 years of women's employment trends, is the first major study of women's employment trends to tease out differences between rural and urban women's work.
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The Role of the Print Media
This report examines the print media’s role in fueling misperceptions about children. Read how newspapers may have fueled the confusion.
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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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How Agencies Can Support Family and Social Network Development
This report, the third in a series aimed at exploring the power of social networks, spotlights the stories of two enterprising organizations: Lawrence Community Works in Massachusetts and the Family Independence Initiative in California. Readers will navigate text infused with firsthand feedback from program participants and learn how both agencies are leveraging social networks in innovative ways to better serve America’s most fragile families.
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What Every Policymaker and Educator Should Know
This report discusses what policymakers and educators need to do to help impoverished preschool children reach their potential in school.
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A Solution in Search of Civic Commitment
This article by the Casey Foundation's Family Economic Success initiative, describes how communities can create successful workforce initiatives based on lessons and findings from the Foundation's Jobs Initiative.
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