Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care: Strengthening a Critical Resource to Help Young Children Succeed
This 2006 KIDS COUNT essay explores how family, friend and neighbor care supports young kids and how to boost its quality with better resources.
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The Working Poor Families Project Policy Brief
This report urges states to include economic self-sufficiency as part of the definition of success for people leaving TANF.
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Struggling Caregivers and Child Neglect
This brief links caregiver struggles to higher out-of-home placements and urges early support services to help at-risk kids and families.
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A Making Connections Peer Technical Assistance Match Between San Diego, California, Boston, Massachusetts, and Newark, New Jersey
This report shares insights from a peer exchange among three sites on building resident-led community development corporations.
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This 2006 fact sheet brings awareness to racial bias and the issue of youth in transition.
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Earn it, Keep it, Grow It
This overview describes how Casey’s framework for family economic success can work in rural America.
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Confronting Concentrated Poverty Across America
This paper urges focus on ending concentrated urban poverty — segregating poor families into severely distressed neighborhoods. Learn more.
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Effective Admission Policies and Practices
This JDAI report offers tips to help jurisdictions make fair detention decisions and find more effective, efficient alternatives to juvenile detention.
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This report show how impoverished families can use the Center for Working Families strategy of Earn it, Keep it, Grow It for financial success.
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On Becoming a Nation that Promotes Strong Families and Successful Youth
This report advocates a simple premise: Strong families = positive outcomes for children.
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