A Multiagency Collaborative Effort to Address Parental Language Barriers and Disproportionate Minority Contact
This report highlights a multiagency collaborative effort to help parents with limited English proficiency understand their role in the juvenile justice system, ultimately toward a goal of increased parental participation regardless of language.
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How Credit Card Debt Is Related to Medical Expenses
With a focus on medical debt and the insurance industry, this is second in a series of Demos publications examining trends in household indebtedness and its impact on economic security.
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Opportunities for Engagement and Intervention
This report uses Casey’s Poverty, Permanence and Place framework to analyze state housing policy and its ability to help impoverished families.
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A Guide to Key Ideas, Effective Approached, and Technical Assistance Resources for Making Connections Cities and Site Teams
This report outlines the ways communities in the Making Connections cities work with their neighbors and the formal justice system to make their neighborhoods safer.
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Juvenile Justice at a Crossroads
When it comes to America’s juvenile justice system, failure, waste and even abuse of troubled youth are rampant. The better news? Thanks to promising reform efforts and policy innovations, which this publication explores, the prospects for progress have never been stronger.
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A Making Connections Peer Technical Assistance Match between Hartford, CT; Providence, RI; and Boston, MA
Documentation of a “peer match” between Making Connections’ Providence, Rhode Island and Hartford, Connecticut site teams with MYTOWN, a Boston-based non-profit that engages youth in civic education and advocacy projects.
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Heavy Duty
This issue of AdvoCasey examines options for providing tax breaks to those who need them most — poor and near-poor working families. Readers will also learn about critical housing needs nationwide and specific state-based efforts to connect residents to health care and better child care options.
AdvoCasey is a seasonal Casey newsletter with themed issues that spotlight programs and policies making measurable differences in the lives of kids and families.
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More Foster Families, Fewer Children Entering Care
This edition of AdvoCasey looks at foster care reform in two Family to Family sites. It also shares how Casey Family Services alumni are faring after they exit the agency’s care and how three sites participating in the Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative have reduced their inappropriate use of secure detention.
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The Closing the Achievement Gap series explores Casey’s education investments in detail and presents stories, results and lessons.
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The Community Connections Preschool Program (Illinois Action for Children)
This report describes an evaluation of the Community Connections preschool program model, which incorporates classroom-based and home provider-based elements.
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