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Community Benefits Agreements:

The Power, Practice, and Promise of a Responsible Redevelopment Tool

The Casey Foundation convened experts on both sides of the redevelopment issue to discuss establishing community benefit agreements as a tool for helping low-income neighborhoods become a partner with business in the redevelopment process.

The Connection Strategy

Preparing Young People to Succeed in College and Beyond

This publication chronicles the stories and some of the results achieved by the preschool through college education connection effort in Atlanta, Georgia.

Steps Toward Safety

Improving Systemic and Community Responses for Families Experiencing Domestic Violence

This report dips into a decade of history to show how far we’ve come in supporting families impacted by domestic violence. Readers will learn about a new set of protocols and practices aimed at aiding both abused adults and their children. Even more, they will discover that the reform effort’s current to-do list is long and there is still much work to do to help these fragile families find hope, be heard and heal.

Eminent Domain: Implications for Community Redevelopment Efforts

The Casey Foundation convened people on both sides of the eminent domain issue to see how to support rather than displace affected families. The discussion produced a set of guiding principles outlined in this report.

Florida's Employment Restrictions Based on Criminal Records

Key Findings and Recommendations Based on Governor's Executive Order Requiring an Inventory of Florida's Employment Restrictions

This report examines the barriers to employment for ex-offenders in Florida based on current law and practice, and recommends reforms to the system to improve opportunities for ex-offenders to find jobs.

A Cost-Saving Approach

Detention Reform Brief 1

The Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) describes how communities in its program have reduced wasteful spending on unnecessary jail time for kids.

An Effective Public Safety Strategy

Detention Reform Brief 2

This report gives insight into the success of detention alternatives when dealing with youth arrests.

Beyond Detention

System Transformation Through Juvenile Detention Reform

Beyond Detention is the 14th report in a series about a multiyear, multisite 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. This entry, written eight years after its series counterparts, highlights how three model sites moved beyond their core reform efforts — and a focus on detention — to make broader improvements in the juvenile justice system.

The Impact of Leadership Development on Early Childhood Education

A Preliminary Review of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Leadership in Action Program

This documentation project explores whether the first statewide and local Leadership in Action Program (LAP) had an impact on the project and the leaders, and if that impact continued to influence efforts to ensure that all children in Maryland and Baltimore City enter school ready to learn.

Connecting Schools, Families & Communities

Stories and Results from the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Education Investments

Partnerships among schools, families, and community organizations can reconnect urban schools to their communities and improve results for young people and their families. This report provides an overview of Casey's investment philosophy and strategies, and its approach to defining and documenting grant-making results.