Restoring Fathers to Families and Communities Six Steps for Policymakers This detailed, six-step guide tells state and local officials how to act, legislatively and administratively, to help America’s fathers help their children. At every step, it offers clear recommendations for promoting father involvement, examples from the front lines and resources for learning more. Read More
Residents Engaged in Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods This report offers strategies for connecting residents and families living in isolated urban neighborhoods to social networks, services, supports, assets, jobs and opportunities through collective action to improve their communities. Read More
The Path of Most Resistance Reflections on Lessons Learned from New Futures The report presents the lessons learned from New Futures, the Casey Foundation's first attempt at a large-scale community change effort. Read More
Tools for Survival: An Analysis of Financial Literacy Programs for Lower-Income Families The report identifies and describes the range of financial literacy programs and reviews the degree to which they are accessible to low-income families. Read More
AdvoCasey: Fall 1999 Winter 2000 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. Read More
Community Safety and Justice 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. Read More
Building Bridges for Child Welfare with Families, Neighborhoods, Communities Family to Family This brief, outlining Casey’s former Family to Family initiative for rebuilding child welfare, describes the rationale, strategy and effectiveness of the neighborhood-centered, family-focused child protection approach. Read More
Juvenile Jailhouse Rocked: Reforming Detention in Chicago, Portland and Sacramento A Preprint for AdvoCasey Fall/Winter 1999 This article presents a hardcore look at how secure detention for kids really works, what it took for Casey to institute its Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative and the effects JDAI has had on grantee jurisdictions and the detention field itself. Read More
The ABC's of Early Childhood Trends, Information and Evidence for Use in Developing an Early Childhood System of Care and Education This report provides evidence to support greater investment in a comprehensive system of early childhood care and education. Read More
Contracting for Child and Family Services A Mission-Sensitive Guide This report explores purchase-of-service contracting and managed care contracting (including the field’s newest option, network creation) as a means of privatizing child welfare services. It helps state and local agencies — and potential service providers — navigate contracts and the contracting process in this new era of serving America’s children and families. Read More
