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Helping leaders, organizations and groups move from intention to action for children and families.
Helping leaders, organizations and groups move from intention to action for children and families.
Annie E. Casey Foundation's Children And Family Fellowship is a prestigious leadership program for outstanding executives who can steer and influence organizations serving children and families. Learn more here.
JDAI is a site-based effort to reduce the use of juvenile detention — the holding of youth before adjudication — and increase more effective interventions. Learn more about what happens in a juvenile detention center and the importance of juvenile detention alternatives now!
A group of child advocacy and research organizations representing every state and using data to promote smart policies on issues ranging from child welfare and juvenile justice to education and economic opportunity.
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Read the story of Sandra Rodriguez, a mother of three who was able to keep her home with help from Philadelphia's innovative foreclosure prevention program, supported in part through Casey's Making Connections initiative.
This report summarizes the information exchange during a meeting of Making Connections site members from Atlanta, Louisville, Oakland and San Diego when these teams came together to exchange information, experience, and ideas about community ownership in neighborhood revitalization projects.
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Data in recent years show that the percentage of children not living with their parents continues to rise.
Sixteen children and family services leaders will work toward community and system reform.
Local Voices: On-the-Ground Perspectives on Driving Community Change in the Making Connections Sites is a new report, produced in partnership with Community Science, that examines the contributions of Casey’s signature community change initiative, Making Connections, in building community capacities and achieving local results.
This report is a series of 50 state-specific papers providing information about the status of immigrant families in each state.
This report describes how the Making Connections site in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sought help from their peers in Louisville, Kentucky on how to integrate services for families and children at the neighborhood level by getting a look at the collaboration used to establish Neighborhood Place in Louisville.
This report introduces new evidence on the widespread violence in juvenile detention centers. Learn more about the uncovered problems with juvenile detention centers in 39 states now.
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Believing resident involvement is critical to lasting community change, the Casey Foundation has employed a variety of strategies to engage residents in shaping solutions to local challenges and to connect them to each other and the resources they need.
This report describes how peer technical assistance – which allows participating communities to share knowledge, and leverage practical experience and innovations from other places – can help strengthen families.
