ARC Reflections is a training curriculum to develop foster parents and caregivers’ understanding of traumatic stress, increase their own emotional regulation and provide tools to support their parenting skills. The case manager guide helps agency staff support foster parents as they learn ARC concepts in discussions, action and evaluation.
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An Update on the Dunbar Learning Complex
In 2010, with support from the Casey Foundation and others, the Dunbar Learning Complex opened in southwest Atlanta. Its goal? Help parents and their children succeed together. This report offers an early look at the Dunbar Learning Complex’s work to date.
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A Guide to Juvenile Detention Reform #12
This JDAI practice guide offers practical steps that all juvenile justice systems can take to implement case processing reforms as a means for safely and equitably reducing the use of juvenile detention.
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Putting the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Racial and Ethnic Equity and Inclusion Framework Into Action
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Grantmaking organizations across the country are making race and ethnic equity a priority. In this report, the Annie E. Casey Foundation shares its own journey in implementing equity throughout its operations.
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Aligning Child Welfare Practice With Adolescent Brain Development
With knowledge of how the adolescent brain matures, adults can do more to ensure that the road leaving foster care will take young people to self-sufficiency and successful adulthood. And this guide tells how.
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Public Markets for Irregular Employment
This executive summary outlines recommendations aimed at strengthening opportunities for gig workers — and America’s rising gig economy. It supplements a full report, which shares feedback and findings gathered from 25 workforce bodies across the country.
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Developing an Infrastructure to Address Parent and Child Needs Together
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This brief examines how seven sites across the country are evolving, at an operational level, to better support two-generation approaches.
This is the second installment in a series that explores the common challenges organizations face when addressing the needs of children and parents at the same time.
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This report showcases the “high cost of being poor” reality by presenting the everyday budget struggles of low-income working families in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Building the Best Evidence-Based Practices for Children of Color
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This case study examines the role of culture in informing and enhancing efforts to level life’s playing field for children of color. Readers will learn how organizations are applying evidence-based practices in culturally relevant ways and how local programs are adopting nontraditional approaches to successfully serve communities of color.
Considering Culture is the fourth installment in a five-part Race for Results case study series.
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How a county and a state are using IDS data and predictive modeling to help case managers identify the most-at-risk families and individuals and improve child welfare and health care outcomes
This case study is one in series of briefs that show how to invest in and use integrated data systems (IDS) in local jurisdictions to improve policies, programs and practice. This brief discusses how Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and Washington state each used an IDS to develop predictive modeling tools that expedited services and saved taxpayer dollars. These tools helped frontline caseworkers prioritize services for the child welfare and Medicare and Medicaid caseloads.
The series highlights the value of developing IDS in local jurisdictions, describes the innovative uses of IDS data, how it shapes decision-making on the ground and how it improves outcomes for vulnerable children, families and adults.
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