A Summary of the Barriers to Apprenticeship Expansion Research Project
This report presents new research and recommendations aimed at helping businesses recognize apprenticeships as a valuable, viable workforce development strategy. Its companion publication, Recasting Apprenticeship Annotated Bibliography, shares a collection of literature on apprenticeship.
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The Story of a Community-Based Strategy to Reduce Teen Pregnancy
This is the story of how five different communities worked to protect local youth from the risks of early sexual activity. This is the story of Plain Talk.
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A FrameWorks Message Memo
This FrameWorks report offers specific, tested recommendations to build public understanding of juvenile justice reform. A related toolkit explains how to implement the recommendations using examples from the juvenile justice field.
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Financial Capacity for Young People Who Experience Foster Care
Young people leaving foster care face a steep climb to economic security. Learn how financial education and a matched savings program can help.
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Collaboration for Change, Part Two
The criminal justice system interacts with many of the same families involved in the child welfare system and while it makes sense that these systems would work together, too often they do not. This guide describes ways that the two systems can work together to improve and strengthen family and community bonds.
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Profiles of Promising Practices
This report shows how colleges and universities can become economic anchors for their local communities. It was written to encourage institutions of higher education to think about the economic anchor role in a cohesive and coordinated manner and not as a piecemeal afterthought.
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Strategies for the Atlanta Civic Site
This brief summarizes Casey’s decade-long involvement in improving community viability and family life in a distressed section of Atlanta, Georgia.
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Mirror, Mirror
This ARC Reflections Training Curriculum walks a facilitator — slide by slide — through each session’s content. Session five helps facilitators encourage caregivers to be curious about children and teens’ communications style and learn to respond supportively.
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Recommendations for the Federal Initiative
This report explains how to implement the Federal Promise Neighborhoods initiative using Results-Based Accountability.
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Final Results from the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Transitional Jobs Program
This report outlines and evaluates the results of the Center for Employment Opportunity program, which aims to help former prisoners improve their job prospects and reduce the chances of landing back in jail.
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