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.
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The Challenge of Drug Abuse in Child Welfare, Part One
This document describes what is known about the effects of crack cocaine on women and their children, ways of treating addiction, the challenges of engaging women in treatment and promising approaches at the system, program and worker level for working with drug-affected women.
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Collaboration for Change, Part One
This report provides detailed information about how child welfare organizations can plan and implement partnerships between public and private agencies.
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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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Building Community Partnerships in Child Welfare, Part Four
Neighborhood connections help build communities and lift struggling families out of poverty. This guide shows families and communities how to strengthen neighborhoods and improve the quality of life through strong neighborhood connections.
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Building Community Partnerships in Child Welfare, Part One
This document offers information about steps and strategies for child welfare agencies to establish community/neighborhood partnerships.
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Media Relations for Child Welfare
This guide provides practical advice and tools for developing a strategic communications program to garner media coverage and support for the Family to Family initiative.
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Drake University and Trinity College
This report describes the learnings from a gathering between Iowa’s Drake University and Connecticut’s Trinity College on how to improve university-community partnerships.
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The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Commitment
This report presents an overview of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s long-term efforts to address gaps in the systems that serve disadvantaged children and families.
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This policy brief summarizes key results and lessons learned from the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Jobs Initiative.
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