to Support Young Children, Their Families, and School Readiness
This tool kit provides resources, strategies and guidance to help communities achieve cultural and linguistic competence across all programs that help families with young children, toward a goal of promoting healthy early childhood development and school readiness.
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The $400 Billion Federal Asset-Building Budget
While the federal government poured millions of dollars into helping with asset building in 2009, this report shows how using the tax code for subsidies just helped the rich get richer.
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This report summarizes six key lessons that emerged from the Foundation’s Making Connections initiative and their implications for Casey’s future community change work.
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A Proposal to Finance Best Practices
This report discusses the federal financing policy changes needed to make permanence an affordable priority for state child welfare agencies.
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Lessons from the Civic Sites
Deploying Casey’s REI Framework: Lessons from the Civic Sites documents the efforts of the Casey Foundation to embed a race equity lens in its work within its Baltimore and Atlanta programs.
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Reengaging Students and Closing the School-to-Prison Pipeline
A guide to using federal pandemic relief funds to rethink K–12 education and close the school-to-prison pipeline. Learn more now.
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Building Quality Networks for Young People in Foster Care
This brief discusses the meaning of social capital and how it affects the growth and development of kids in foster care. It’s part of the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative issue brief series for youth engagement.
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The Power, Practice, and Promise of a Responsible Redevelopment Tool
The Casey Foundation convened experts on both sides of the redevelopment issue to discuss establishing community benefit agreements as a tool for helping low-income neighborhoods become a partner with business in the redevelopment process.
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The Impact of Incarcerating Youth in Detention and Other Secure Facilities
This policy brief looks at the consequences of detention on kids and communities and the positive results coming from Casey’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI).
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Making the Business Case: Research and References for 10 Practices and Appendices
This publication includes research, references and appendices to help child welfare leaders make the business case for improving policies and practices.
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