Publications

Building Support for Innovation Inside Child Welfare Agencies

August 10, 2001

This report focuses on organization development tools as an approach to supporting change within child welfare organizations.

Evaluation Findings and Lessons Learned from the AECF Mental Health Initiative for Urban Children

August 1, 2001

This report evaluates a five-year Casey project to improve mental health in poor urban areas and reduce public spending on social services.

The Need for Self-Evaluation: Using Data to Guide Policy and Practice

July 22, 2001

This descriptive guide provides examples of data tools as they related to the self-evaluation process for Family to Family sites.

Implementing the Values and Strategies of Family to Family

July 22, 2001

This guide helps child welfare agencies and partners shift toward a more family-focused, neighborhood-based service system.

Recruitment, Training, and Support: The Essential Tools of Foster Care

July 18, 2001

This guide explains family-centered foster care and how foster families can be recruited, trained, supported and retained to ensure the best outcomes.

Systems Reform in the Jobs Initiative

July 3, 2001

This policy brief looks at the challenges and opportunities of pursuing systems change related to job retention and advancement for low-income workers.

Service Development in the AECF Mental Health Initiative for Urban Children

July 1, 2001

This report reviews a Casey project on delivering mental health services to inner-city kids, focusing on prevention, community and parent involvement.

Family to Family: Lessons Learned

July 1, 2001

This report shares lessons from Casey’s foster care reform, showing how agencies work with families and communities to keep kids placed close to home.