How Three Model Sites are Implementing the Center for Working Families Approach
This report presents insights into three successful programs showing how they have adopted the CWF approach in response to different local circumstances and opportunities.
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Applying GIS to Residents’ Perceptions of Their Neighborhoods
For policymakers, funders and front-line professionals, this report describes how to involve residents in place-based strategies that address the needs of disadvantaged children and families.
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Helping Ex-Offenders Turn Their Lives Around in Marion County, Indiana
This report outlines the Marion County, Indiana Leadership in Action (LAP) program to reduce the rate of re-arrest by incarcerated people after they are released from prison or jail.
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Securing America’s Future in Education
This brief outlines a case for the DREAM Act as a means of providing educational opportunities to undocumented immigrant children who have grown up in America and consider the United States home.
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A 10-Year Review of the Casey Fellows' Mini-Grants Program
This report summarizes 10 years of the Fellows Alumni Network mini-grants history, alumni involvement and awards, from Casey's Children and Family Fellowship program.
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A Guide to Leveraging Federal, State and Local Dollars
This guide helps readers brush up on the finer points of child welfare funding. It also highlights how states and localities can dial back costly congregate care in favor of community-based permanency services for children and families.
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This report outlines the goals, strategies and progress of the East Baltimore, Maryland, Revitalization Initiative.
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A KIDS COUNT Special Report on the Importance of Reading by 3rd Grade
Millions of American children get to fourth grade without achieving a 3rd grade reading level, and that puts them on the high school dropout track. Learn why the ability to read is critical to a child’s success in school.
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Recommendations for the Federal Initiative
This report explains how to implement the Federal Promise Neighborhoods initiative using Results-Based Accountability.
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...And Other Insights from Successful Workforce Leaders
This report offers insights and observations from successful leaders who have worked on system change, in answer to the philanthropic community’s need for more discussion and analysis of the traits, talents and tactics that make good leaders, especially in workforce development.
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