Creating Successful Futures for Children and Families
This report highlights the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s efforts to advance creative, cost-effective solutions for strengthening Baltimore’s families and communities while developing better solutions for at-risk children. It is part of a series that features Casey’s efforts in cities throughout America.
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What Every Policymaker and Educator Should Know
This report discusses what policymakers and educators need to do to help impoverished preschool children reach their potential in school.
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Casey Connects: Winter 2010-2011
Among other highlights featured in this edition of the Casey Foundation’s newsletter is an overview of how the Foundation seeks to make evidence-based practice the norm in serving children and families.
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An index of reporting standards
This paper makes a clear case for revolutionizing reporting standards for group care programs. Readers will learn how the field’s current approach paints an all-to-generic picture of programs while failing to define what works—and what doesn’t—in terms of serving today’s youth. New comprehensive standards, introduced in this report, can both expand what we know about group care practice and inject some much-needed nuance into this muddied field.
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Telephone Care Management for Medicaid Recipients with Depression, 36 Months After Random Assignment
This report examines a telephone care management program called Working Toward Wellness, which served depressed parents receiving Medicaid in Rhode Island. The 1-year program, which was active from 2004 to 2006, involved clinicians calling participants and encouraging them to seek out and sustain needed mental health care. Readers will learn about the intervention’s impact and discover if these parents were still benefiting from the program 2 years after its conclusion.
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How Agencies Can Support Family and Social Network Development
This report, the third in a series aimed at exploring the power of social networks, spotlights the stories of two enterprising organizations: Lawrence Community Works in Massachusetts and the Family Independence Initiative in California. Readers will navigate text infused with firsthand feedback from program participants and learn how both agencies are leveraging social networks in innovative ways to better serve America’s most fragile families.
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Financial Institution Guide for Offering International Remittance Services
This executive summary accompanies a full report that provides users with a step-by-step approach to establishing a remittance program that is beneficial to both consumers and the financial institutions serving them. The report describes several effective remittance programs, drawing on the experiences of financial institutions throughout the U.S.
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An Opportunity to Improve Children's Life Chances
This paper compares workforce development programs and continuing education programs created to give poor, under-educated parents a chance at increased economic success and advantageous child rearing.
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Contrasts in a Turbulent Decade, Revised Draft
The purpose of this statistical report is to illustrate the conditions and trends that have plagued America’s metropolitan areas during the 2000s to give community planners a basis for thinking about the implications for their future work.
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A Solution in Search of Civic Commitment
This article by the Casey Foundation's Family Economic Success initiative, describes how communities can create successful workforce initiatives based on lessons and findings from the Foundation's Jobs Initiative.
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