A Guide to Juvenile Detention Reform
True to its title, this report aims to help jurisdictions embed the goals of the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) into state law. How it does this—by pairing an expansive collection of policy excerpts with helpful tips and a tool for assessing existing strategies—allows sites to create a customized game plan for advancing the tenets of JDAI reform.
JDAI—a product of the Annie E. Casey Foundation—is a multi-year, multi-site effort to create a safer, fairer detention system while championing the use of more effective, efficient alternatives to secure confinement.
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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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Innovations in Workforce Development for Minority Job Seekers and Employers
This Jobs Initiative report explores racial discrimination against low-skilled workers in regional labor markets – and what can be done about it.
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Case Studies in Changing Local Workforce Development Systems
This report evaluates the Jobs Initiative, Casey's six-city, eight-year effort to engage local institutions and stakeholders while identifying ways to improve workforce development services for disadvantaged job seekers. The ultimate goal was to find improved workforce development approaches and create large-scale, system-wide change.
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Reflections on the Rebuilding Communities Initiative
This paper is intended to reflect and capture the lessons learned in the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Rebuilding Communities Initiative, a seven-year initiative launched in 1994 to provide support to help transform troubled, destitute neighborhoods into safe, supportive and productive environments for children and their families.
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Creating Successful Futures for Children and Families
Seattle was the home of UPS founder Jim Casey and his siblings, who created the Annie E. Casey Foundation in honor of their mother and committed it to serving disadvantaged kids. This publication features some of the Casey projects and partnerships that reflect that commitment, including Seattle Jobs Initiative, a decade-long effort to link low-income men and women with a living wage; Making Connections White Center, which demonstrates how communities and residents can lead efforts to improve tough neighborhoods; and Thrive by Five, a public-private partnership that aims to improve, expand and promote early childhood education in the state.
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Metropolitan Trends in the 2000s
An analysis of data on neighborhood poverty suggests that the strong economy of the late 1990s did not permanently resolve the challenge of concentrated poverty. The slower economic growth of the 2000s, followed by the worst downturn in decades, led to increases in neighborhoods of extreme poverty once again.
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Learning In, and From, the Evaluation of Making Connections
This report summarizes the insights and emerging lessons from the efforts to evaluate the Foundation’s decade-long, multisite Making Connections community change initiative.
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This report is packed with recommendations on how newsrooms and journalists can dig deeper — and report more responsibly — when covering racial disparities in America. It summarizes views shared at a forum on journalism, race and society that took place during The Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change.
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...And Other Insights from Successful Workforce Leaders
This report offers insights and observations from successful leaders who have worked on system change, in answer to the philanthropic community’s need for more discussion and analysis of the traits, talents and tactics that make good leaders, especially in workforce development.
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