Housing as a Platform for Formerly Incarcerated Persons Stable housing may be a short- and long-term solution for helping released prisoners successfully re-enter society, but more research is needed. Read More
Partnerships Between Corrections and Child Welfare 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. Read More
Plain Talk to Reduce Teen Pregnancy 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. Read More
Casey Connects: Winter 2009 Helping Families Succeed This issue of Casey Connects outlines 4 sets of federal policy approaches aimed at improving the lives of America’s most economically fragile families. Readers will learn what actions the Foundation recommends to help reduce poverty, reform the nation’s child welfare and juvenile justice systems, and improve data on children and families. Read More
Recasting American Apprenticeship 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. Read More
Focusing on Results in Promise Neighborhoods Recommendations for the Federal Initiative This report explains how to implement the Federal Promise Neighborhoods initiative using Results-Based Accountability. Read More
Colleges and Universities as Economic Anchors 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. Read More
Community Building to Drive Change 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. Read More
ARC Reflections Facilitator Guide for Session Five 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. Read More
Casey Connects: Spring 2010 Reflections on Doug Nelson’s 20 Years of Leadership This issue of Casey Connects honors the two-decade tenure of Douglas W. Nelson, who retired as Annie E. Casey Foundation’s president and chief executive officer in April 2010. Learn about Nelson’s key contributions in shaping both the Foundation and the nation’s perspective on serving vulnerable children and families. Read More
