Community Investments for Family Economic Success A guide to key ideas, effective approaches, and technical assistance resources for Making Connections cities and site teams. An overview of strategies, tools and resources that can help trigger new or improved housing, commercial/retail and infrastructure investment in low-income communities. Read More
Responsible Demolition Progress in Detroit and Baltimore This brief highlights demolition guidelines aimed at limiting the spread of pollutants and protecting the health of residents during revitalization efforts in Detroit. Read More
The Need for Self-Evaluation (Summary) Using Data to Guide Policy and Practice For many child welfare agencies data can be overwhelming and sometimes not useful. This document describes an attempt by the Family to Family Initiative to reinvent the way data in child welfare is used by creating better structures and processes for compiling data, conducting analyses, and linking data to evaluation. Read More
Low Income and Impoverished Families Pay More Disproportionately for Child Care This four-page policy brief examines how much poor and low-income families spend on child care relative to their wealthier counterparts (The conclusion? Poor families pay more — and the discrepancy is jaw-dropping). The data-fueled document then ends with a simple charge: We must increase our investment in child-care assistance to give America’s neediest families a fighting chance. Read More
Teen Motherhood at Record Low in United States Data Snapshot Number 2 This report — part of the KIDS COUNT Data Snapshot series — shares the latest statistics on teen pregnancy in the United States. It tells how teen birth rates differ by location and race and how the number of teen mothers in America has decreased over time. Read More
Disposable Children The prevalence of child abuse and trauma among children prosecuted as adults in Maryland Researchers surveyed kids incarcerated as adults in Maryland and found a strong common tie: profound childhood trauma. Read more. Read More
KIDS COUNT Indicator Brief: Reducing the High School Dropout Rate This brief outlines five strategies for reducing the number of teens who drop out before graduating from high school. Read More
Building a Stronger Regional Safety Net Philanthropy's Role This analysis combines an original dataset of foundation grants for social services with interviews that assess the role of foundations in supporting the suburban social safety net in the Atlanta, Chicago, Denver and Detroit regions. Read More
Youth Violence Myths and Realities: A Tale of Three Cities The Different Story of Delinquent Youth as Told by the Media and by Juvenile Justice System Professionals and the Youth Themselves This report examines the youth perspective on violence, life circumstance, and the response of the justice system to a supposed growth of violence among troubled youth. Read More
Mental Health Practice Guidelines for Child Welfare This publication shares guidelines for improving the behavioral health of youth in state custody. Child welfare experts, behavioral health leaders, and child and youth advocates developed this guidance as part of a 2-day conference convened by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Casey Family Programs and The REACH Institute. Read More
