Changing a Community
Between 1993 and 1998, the Annie E. Casey Foundation rolled out a pregnancy prevention initiative called Plain Talk in five low-income urban neighborhoods. This report utilizes survey results to discuss what worked well and what didn’t during the program’s implementation.
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Initiative Aims to Ease the Pain of Transition From Foster Care
This issue of Casey Connects spotlights transitions. It unveils three new Foundation initiatives breaking fresh ground and highlights the racially impactful, Oscar-nominated film Legacy, revealing a family’s transformation in ghetto Chicago after the murder of their shining star son.
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Engaging Residents in Family-Strengthening Efforts
This paper describes using study circles to engage residents in three Making Connections initiative neighborhoods.
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Lessons from the Florida Detention Initiative
This report compares two reform initiatives with nearly identical objectives yet drastically different final chapters. Readers will learn how officials successfully reduced local detention center populations and why a similar statewide effort failed just years later. Replicating Detention Reform is the 12th installment in a series devoted to identifying more effective, efficient alternatives to juvenile detention.
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Sharing Strategies for Using Data in Making Connections
This issue of Casey Connects features three distinctive conferences highlighting Making Connections and the ever-expanding network of critical Casey partnerships.
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States’ Early Experiences with Crowd Out under SCHIP
This report shares results of a study that asked if states were concerned about crowd out under the State Children’s Health Insurance Program and, if so, how they were addressing these concerns. To complete this study, researchers conducted site visits and telephone interviews with representatives in 18 states.
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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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Promising Practices, A Guide for Policymakers and Practitioners
This report presents actual programs and services available for foster care youth to establish a pathway out of poverty to college and high-paying careers.
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Readers will learn what sites did, didn’t do, and wish they had done differently to launch and sustain successful detention reforms in their jurisdictions. These hard-earned lessons stem from a multi-year, multi-site project conducted by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Called the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI), the project aimed to do just what its name suggests: Identify more effective, efficient alternatives to juvenile detention.
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strategies for handling difficult populations
This report tells sites how to reduce rates of unnecessary detention for three distinct groups of youth: minors with warrants, probation violators and post-adjudication detainees. It is a product of Casey's Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI).
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