This case study gives an example of how a results-based leadership program within the Baltimore City Department of Social Services helped leaders work more collaboratively and produce measurable results to improve the lives of children in their community.
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What Every Policymaker Should Know
This report examines the mental health needs of young children — birth to age 5 — in the child welfare system and the barriers to accessing services to address these needs. Also included are recommendations for policymakers and providers in order to protect this vulnerable population.
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The Long-Term Earnings Gap
This report, rooted in original research, wastes no time debunking rosy notions of gender equality. It shows that women earn far less than their male counterparts over the long term. It also tells how too many women — but few men — have low lifelong earnings.
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A Making Connections Peer Technical Assistance Match Between Boston, Massachusetts and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Documentation of an exchange between two Making Connections sites regarding ideas and emerging lessons about creating community governing boards and committees led by residents.
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Insights From Young People and Families
This report shares insights from young people and families who have experienced youth probation. Get their take on what's working — and what isn't.
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How a county government uses integrated data to improve services for homeless mothers and their children and implement a pioneering public-private funding partnership
This case study is one in a series of briefs that show how local jurisdictions can invest in and use integrated data systems (IDS) to improve policies, programs and practice. This case study presents a public-private partnership in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, using an IDS to design, finance and evaluate a program to help homeless mothers reunite more quickly with their children placed in foster care.
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Improving Economic and Child Outcomes in Milwaukee
In 1994, Milwaukee implemented a two-year program, New Hope, that provided low-income working families with a flexible package of earnings supplements and services. The results? Glorious. Parents benefited from a boost in employment and earnings. Equally noteworthy: Their kids — specifically their sons — had fewer behavioral issues and better academic success.
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Atlanta Civic Site Brochure
This brochure describes Casey's investment in an impoverished section of Atlanta, Georgia, and invites partners to support expansion of the work.
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The Role of Faith-Based Organizations
This document presents information that describes how smaller faith-based organizations have developed services and programs to meet the economic and other needs of low-income individuals and families living in their community.
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System Deficiencies and Unknown Outcomes
This report spotlights pediatric behavioral health services available through Virginia’s Secretary of Health and Human Resources. It describes a system that is punctuated by wait lists, inadequate services, silos of data and a scant focus on producing concrete results for some of the state’s most vulnerable kids.
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