Special Detention Cases strategies for handling difficult populations This report outlines strategies to reduce detention for minors with warrants, probation violators and post-adjudication youth through Casey’s JDAI. Read More
Insights From a Pandemic Reflections from the On Track to Career Success Project On Track to Career Success puts students on a path to academic and workplace success. Read about the initiative. Read More
Bridges to Manhood A multifaceted probation strategy that incorporates fatherhood development Cook County’s model helps young dads on probation succeed, strengthen families and ease officers’ workloads through focused fatherhood programs. Read More
Way to Give A Guide to Connecting, Giving and Asset Building This report explores tithing in low-income congregations, linking it to asset building through clergy interviews and summaries of congregation types. Read More
Achieving the Six Core Results The Role of Faith-Based Organizations This document shows how small faith-based groups support low-income families with services that address local economic and community needs. Read More
Embedding Detention Reform in State Statutes, Rules and Regulations A Guide to Juvenile Detention Reform This report helps jurisdictions align state law with JDAI goals, promoting safer detention systems and better alternatives to secure confinement. Read More
Community Investments for Family Economic Success A guide to key ideas, effective approaches, and technical assistance resources for Making Connections cities and site teams. This report offers an overview of tools and strategies to spark new or improved housing, retail and infrastructure investment in low-income communities. Read More
Family Mobility and Neighborhood Change: New Evidence and Implications for Community Initiatives Making Connections Research Series This report analyzes data from Casey’s Making Connections initiative, focusing on family mobility and neighborhood improvement or decline. Read More
Borrowing to Make Ends Meet: The Growth of Credit Card Debt in the '90s This study is the first report in a series examining the relationship between credit card debt and economic security in the United States. Read More
Measuring Change While Changing Measures Learning In, and From, the Evaluation of Making Connections This report shares key insights and lessons from evaluating the Foundation’s decade-long, multisite Making Connections community initiative. Read More
