Building a Path to Opportunity for All Children
The 2017 Race for Results report measures children’s progress on the national and state levels in key education, health and economic milestones by racial and ethnic groups. Learn more about helping children in immigrant families secure the stability, economic resources and opportunities they need to thrive.
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Lessons From Atlanta and Milwaukee
Casey’s community safety investments are built on the belief that gun violence is a public health epidemic that must be addressed with preventive measures developed with input from communities. |
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This tool kit offers strategies, stories, resources and activities that can help organizations apply a race equity lens while using, sharing and integrating administrative data. It also runs readers through the six phases of the data life cycle.
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A Research Update on the Importance of Third-Grade Reading
Does early reading predict academic success? This report examines third grade reading proficiency and an individual's success later in life.
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State and National Data to Drive Foster Care Advocacy
"Fostering Youth Transitions 2023" examines the experiences of teenagers and young adults in foster care as reported by all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
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A Guide to Key Ideas, Effective Approaches, and TA Resources for When Prisoners Return to the Community
This prisoner reentry report provides community-based, family strengthening solutions to help prisoners after release. Learn more about help for released prisoners now.
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This report reflects the various aspects of social capital as it pertains to immigrant neighborhoods and communities of color, showing the importance of social capital in community development.
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Building a Path to Opportunity for All Children
In this KIDS COUNT policy report, the Foundation explores the intersection of kids, race and opportunity. The report features the new Race for Results Index, which compares how children are progressing on key milestones across racial and ethnic groups at the national and state levels.
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Giving Children in the Child Welfare System the Best Chance for Success
This KIDS COUNT policy report underscores a simple fact about childhood: Family matters. Yet, today in America, 57,000 children are still living in group placements. Readers will learn about limiting the role of residential treatment care to its intended purpose and how state and local leaders can work together to enhance family-oriented services and supports. The end goal? Brighter futures — and loving families — for some of our country’s most vulnerable children.
View the list of KIDS COUNT Outreach Partners, a network of organizations who help to promote KIDS COUNT data and its policy recommendations.
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Family to Family Tools for Rebuilding Foster Care
This manual shows why community partnership programs are essential for child welfare work and provides the steps for how to establish those relationships.
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