The Power of Resident Leadership, Social Networks and Community Mobilization
This report, focused on "authentic demand" and resident engagement, shows how Casey’s community change work is integrated into the neighborhoods for its Making Connections initiative.
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This fact sheet presents data on parents as prisoners, the affect this has on the children and how foster care plays a role.
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A Practice Guide for State Advisory Groups #3
This detention reform practice guide is specifically designed for State Advisory Groups overseeing the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA), providing recommendations for ways to implement and lead an effective detention reform initiative.
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An Initiative to Improve Child Welfare Systems
This document explains why and how the Casey Foundation set out to improve child welfare systems and practices across the country and what the Foundation learned in the process.
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Exploring Development in the Field and Opportunities for Growth
In 2007, the Annie E. Casey Foundation convened two teams of experts to discuss parental incarceration and its impact on families. Beyond summarizing the key lessons from these sessions, this report also spells out what we still need to learn about the issue, where we can be doing more and how the Foundation has already invested in aiding these vulnerable children and families.
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Predatory Lending in Native American Communities
This report provides an overview of predatory lending practices aimed at Native Americans across the United States and the work being done by five Native nations to help fight this growing problem.
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challenges and opportunities
This report tackles the issue of detention reform in rual areas and supports the ideal that children everywhere—regardless of their zip code—deserve to be treated fairly when facing detention. It shares lessons learned from a multiyear, multisite 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.
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Cars & Jobs in America
Using three real-life stories, this discussion guide illustrates ways in which common pitfalls prevent families from reaching better jobs, better opportunities and a better quality of life.
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A History of Collaboration
This report traces how various funders—national foundations, smaller local foundations, and government agencies can work together to have an impact on key economic challenges. Such collaborations foster new possibilities in the workforce field and should encourage other funders to support similar efforts.
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Next Generation Leaders Speak Out
A skilled, committed and diverse pool of next generation leaders would like to be nonprofit executives in the future, but concerns about insufficient work-life balance and lack of earning potential may keep them from it. This national survey of 6,000 emerging nonprofit leaders, produced by the Meyer Foundation in partnership with the Annie E. Casey Foundation and others, presents challenges and recommendations for training and supporting future nonprofit executives.
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