Policy and Practice Implications for Children, Families and Child Welfare Agencies
This report explores different perspectives on the practice of diverting children from child welfare to live with kin when they cannot remain with their families, and identifies critical components of an effective kinship care system. This analysis is based on the insights of more than 50 child welfare and judicial personnel, advocates and researchers.
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The Race for Results in Atlanta
This report examines Atlanta through its 25 neighborhood planning units and highlights how place and race present persistent barriers that keep kids, particularly those of color, from reaching their full potential.
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A Guide for Corrections, Service Providers and Community Groups
This report — a detailed how-to guide for improving release planning procedures — spells out the eight basic needs of all exiting prisoners and identifies some of the main challenges that correction agencies face in addressing each need. Even more, it gives readers specific recommendations for satisfying each exit-day essential to ensure that an individual’s transition from incarceration goes as smoothly as possible.
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A guide to juvenile detention reform
In 2014, the Annie E. Casey Foundation issued a report, Noncitizen Youth in the Juvenile Justice System, aimed at ensuring the safe and fair treatment of noncitizen youth in detention. This update picks up where the 2014 report left off.
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Building the Best Evidence-Based Practices for Children of Color
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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This report shares how state policymakers can help dismantle education- and employment-related barriers for people with juvenile records.
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A New Approach to Asset Building
Financial coaching is an emerging approach to help low-income families build financial assets. This report highlights a financial coaching approach and possible outcomes.
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This publication provides a detailed update on the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative.
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Using Executive Transition Management to Strengthen Organizational Capacity
This report highlights the challenges associated with executive transitions and describes the model of executive management transition that has been used in the last decade.
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A View from Families and Youth
This report adopts a family and youth perspective to discuss what isn’t working — and what can be done about it — in regards to children’s behavioral health policies and services. It is the byproduct of a meeting hosted by the National Center of Children in Poverty and shares the views of 16 stakeholders in the child behavioral health field.
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