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Faith in Communities
The Casey Foundation helps faith-based organizations, like the Providence In-town Churches Association Food Pantry, expand their community service efforts.
Faith communities supported kids and families through Making Connections, with investments aiding reentry and children of incarcerated parents. Read more.
The Casey Foundation helps faith-based organizations, like the Providence In-town Churches Association Food Pantry, expand their community service efforts.
Newsletter
This issue of Casey Connects spotlights four initiatives that the Annie E. Casey Foundation has invested in for the last decade: aiding the formerly incarcerated, promoting responsible fatherhood, supporting healthy relationships and tapping into the strengths of faith-based organizations. The end goal in each of these efforts is the same: Give kids in tough communities a better shot at success.
Practice Guide
This report presents the Healing Communities detailed model of prisoner reentry, where the time for engaging members of the congregation is any time from arrest through reintegration after a “returning citizen” returns home from prison.
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This guide, developed for an interdenominational Christian audience, explains the Healing Communities model which seeks to engage congregations in the restoration and healing of their members who have been affected by crime and incarceration.
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This guide, developed in partnership with the Progressive National Baptist Convention, explains the Healing Communities model which seeks to engage congregations in the restoration and healing of their members who have been affected by crime and incarceration.
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This document shows how small faith-based groups support low-income families with services that address local economic and community needs.
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This report covers a faith-based effort in eight communities to register non-voters through diverse congregations and boost civic participation.
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This report explores tithing in low-income congregations, linking it to asset building through clergy interviews and summaries of congregation types.
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This report explores the substance abuse problem in the United States and explores how religion may be the best hope for a solution in ethnic communities.
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This summary document describes how faith-based organizations can develop services and programs to meet the economic and other needs of low-income individuals and families living in their communities.
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