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AdvoCasey is a policy magazine published by the Casey Foundation to highlight issues and policies that affect the lives of children and families in the United States.

AdvoCasey Preprint Article: Repealing the Hidden Tax

This article focuses on strategies and programs that help low-income working families avoid expensive tax preparers, maximize their refunds, and begin saving for the future  more >>

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AdvoCasey: Fall 1999/Winter 2000, Volume 1, Number 3

The Fall 1999/Winter 2000 issue of AdvoCasey focuses on troubled neighborhood families. Discussions are covered about why children end up in foster care. It also describes the JDAI approach to pretrial detention. more >>

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AdvoCasey: Fall 2001/Winter 2002, Volume 3, Number 2

The Fall 2001/Winter 2002 issue of AdvoCasey focuses on foster teens in transition. It highlights what communities and child welfare agencies are doing (and not doing) to help them. more >>

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AdvoCasey: Spring 2002, Volume 4, Number 1

This issue focuses on tax credits for America's fragile families. It highlights the growing value of earned income and child tax credits for low-income working families. Other stories profile the remarkable rise of Houston public schools; two Miami-based adolescent substance abuse treatment programs; and Chicago's Child-Parent Centers. more >>

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AdvoCasey: Spring 2004, Volume 6, Number 1

This issue explores the workforce crisis plaguing children and family services systems nationwide. Highlights of this issue include: the staffing challenge facing early child care, juvenile justice, and foster care; “just-in-time” hiring processes; pay-for-performance contracts; and personnel reforms.  more >>

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AdvoCasey: Spring/Summer 2000, Volume 2, Number 1

This issue highlights effective approaches to improving health care in low-income communities. It includes segments on treating latent tuberculosis infections, Medicaid enrollment, community health centers, and protection for sexually active teens.  more >>

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AdvoCasey: Spring/Summer 2001, Volume 3, Number 1

This issue features five articles on low income families and work, focusing on tax reforms that help low-income families work their way up the economic ladder. The issue also discusses the adverse impacts that the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) can have on poor and near-poor families.  more >>

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AdvoCasey: Summer 1999, Volume 1, Number 2

This issue of ADVOCASEY focuses on the goal of moving welfare recipients off public assistance and out of poverty. This issue also discusses a proposal for deep reductions in welfare benefits to poor families. more >>

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AdvoCasey: Summer 2002, Volume 4, Number 2

This issue examines the future of welfare reform. Feature stories detail one program that helps newly employed welfare recipients move from dead end jobs to promising careers and another that offers long-term welfare recipients "swimming lessons" before making them sink or swim on their own.  more >>

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AdvoCasey: Article Preprint-Walking the Plain Talk

This report focuses on a community-based initiative to protect sexually active teens, specifically focusing on three neighborhoods in Atlanta, New Orleans, and San Diego, where independent evaluators found strong links between improved adult-youth communication and reductions in pregnancy and STDs.  more >>

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Advocasey: Juvenile Jailhouse Rocked - Reforming Detention in Chicago, Portland, and Sacramento

This newsletter examines the problem of arbitrary pretrial admissions, a costly practice that poses hazards for youth, jurisdictions, and society at large. This report also explains the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative’s (JDAI) key detention reform strategies: collaborative planning and decision making, objective admissions practices, case processing innovations, and alternative programs. This newsletter is part of a larger Advocasey series.  more >>

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Advocasey: Juvenile Justice at a Crossroads

This news brief examines the reliance on large correctional facilities and the substandard legal representation provided for accused teens. Additionally, the brief highlights four key ways to juvenile justice reform and provides an update on the progress of the Casey Foundation's Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI). more >>

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AdvoCasey: Spring 2003, Volume 5, Number 1

This issue is devoted to juvenile justice. It decries the trend toward "fad justice" for teens, and explores four crucial choices facing the juvenile justice field. Also included are updates on the continuing progress of the juvenile detention reform movement, the success of Missouri's "small is beautiful" approach to youth corrections, and California's juvenile jail building boom. more >>

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AdvoCasey: Winter 2005, Volume 7, Number 1

This issue spells out the high prices low-income Americans pay for credit, home-ownership, banking, shopping, and medical debts. One article specifically explores the implications of payday lending—high-cost cash advances that have proliferated widely in recent years.  more >>

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Juvenile Jailhouse Rocked

A report on the Casey Foundation's Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative, this story documents the successful efforts of three urban counties -- Cook, Multnomah, and Sacramento -- to reduce the unnecessary and inappropriate use of secure juvenile detention without compromising public safety. more >>

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New Hope for Low-Income Workers: Improving Economic and Child Outcomes in Milwaukee

This article was published as part of the serial ADVOCASEY, Vol.1, No. 2. in 1999. It presents an evaluation of the New Hope project in Milwaukee and its impact on children. more >>

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Walking the Plain Talk: Protecting Sexually Active Teens in Atlanta, New Orleans, and San Diego

This article explains how Casey adapted the principles of clear communication about protection to a neighborhood-scale initiative that engaged a broad range of community adults in receiving and disseminating accurate information about adolescent sexuality and contraceptives. more >>

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