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Race Matters: Unequal Opportunities for School Readiness

This fact sheet offers a quick source for analysis and strategies related to issues of racial inequity surrounding school readiness.

Race Matters: Unequal Opportunity within Criminal Justice

This 2006 fact sheet brings awareness to the racial profiling issue in the criminal justice system.

Undercounted, Underserved

Immigrant and Refugee Families in the Child Welfare System

This report focuses on the needs of immigrant and refugee children in the child welfare system.

Race Matters: How to Talk About Race

Here are tips from the Annie E. Casey Foundtion about how to engage in productive conversations about race.

Race Matters: What's Race Got To Do With It?

Before you decide race is an issue, check out these 6 steps to make sure.

Stepping Up, Staying Engaged

Succession Planning and Executive Transition Management for Nonprofit Boards of Directors

This publication focuses particularly on board leaders. It provides a set of practical perspectives, hands-on tools, brief case studies and useful resources to help board chairs, officers, and members take a proactive approach to preparing their organizations for a transition.

The Road to Success

Summary of Life-Skills Activities and Principles

This paper reviews the many programs and activities offered to increase and enhance the life skills of youth in care.

The 2006 KIDS COUNT Data Book

State Profiles of Child Well-Being

The 2006 KIDS COUNT Data Book focuses on the needs and conditions of America's most disadvantaged children and families, as well as statistical trends. The 2006 edition essay focuses on improving early childhood development opportunities for young children living in low-income neighborhoods and the impact that family, friend and neighbor care has on improving outcomes for children.

2006 KIDS COUNT Essay

Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care: Strengthening a Critical Resource to Help Young Children Succeed

This essay, taken from the 2006 KIDS COUNT Data Book, examines how "family, friend and neighbor care", a type of child care used by millions of families, nurtures young children and how parents and providers can connect to resources to increase the quality of this care.

Copy That

Guidelines for Replicating Programs to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

This report draws on the replication experiences of three programs: Plain Talk, the Teen Outreach Program and the Children's Aid Society-Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program. It provides a brief overview of the primary issues involved in replicating a program to prevent teen pregnancy.