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A Snapshot of Children on the Texas Border

This four-page Kids Count snapshot spotlights what life is like for children on the Texas border. Readers will review the longstanding challenges facing Texas border residents and learn about new opportunities and key indicators for child well-being in these communities.

The Promise and Challenge of Mentoring High-Risk Youth

Findings from the National Faith-Based Initiative

This report leverages the experiences of four faith-based organizations that developed mentorship programs aimed at supporting older, high-risk youth. Readers will explore data-driven findings, moves to make and challenges to consider when designing similar programs that connect caring adults with youth whose lives have veered off track.

Structural Racism and Youth Development

Roundtable on Community Change Working Paper Series

This publication explores the game-changing role that race plays in our country’s politics, economy and culture. It delivers clear examples, recommendations and discussion points aimed at helping the youth field address structural racism and forge a brighter, fairer path for America’s future.

The Rural South

Listening to Families in Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee

This report shares feedback from 116 focus group participants with limited resources in rural Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee. Researchers used this feedback to identify the challenges and supports that these families experience and to outline strategies for advancing their opportunities in four key areas: services and supports, educational opportunity, economic opportunity and social networks.

Still a Man’s Labor Market

The Long-Term Earnings Gap

This report, rooted in original research, wastes no time debunking rosy notions of gender equality. It shows that women earn far less than their male counterparts over the long term. It also tells how too many women — but few men — have low lifelong earnings.

Nurture for Their Future

The Importance of Strengthening Young Children’s Relationships with Parents and Caregivers

This report outlines where Illinois currently stands — and how it can do better — in strengthening relationships between caregivers and young children. It pairs policy recommendations with actions individuals can take to help give the state’s youngest residents the healthiest start possible.

Neighborhoods Count

A Look at NPU-V in 2004

This report presented baseline data and resident stories in a section of Atlanta with Casey investments as a starting point to measure progress toward improving resident health, safety, education and livelihoods.

Strengthening Rural Families: The High Cost of Being Poor

What it takes for low-income families to get by and get ahead in rural America

This report shows how poverty is an issue for families in rural, as well as urban, settings.

Capturing the Power of Leadership Change

Using Executive Transition Management to Strengthen Organizational Capacity

This report highlights the challenges associated with executive transitions and describes the model of executive management transition that has been used in the last decade.

In the Moment Strategies for Facilitators of Team Decisionmaking Meetings

When Domestic Violence is Present or Suspected

This guide provides some suggested strategies, skills, and background information for facilitators who have either witnessed or suspect that a family has experienced domestic violence.