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First Focus Unveils Interactive Children’s Budget Website

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:45:34 -0500

Looking for details on federal investments benefiting children? This new interactive website has customable information on more than 160 federally funded programs.

10 Elements of a Successful High School

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:19:43 -0500

Drawing from the work of leading researchers and educators from around the country, the Alliance for Excellent Education has identified ten key elements that every high school should have in place to ensure that all its students are successful.

America’s Invisible Children: Latino Youth and the Failure of Justice

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:02:11 -0500

This report, a product of The National Council of La Raza and the Campaign for Youth Justice, examines recent information about Latino youth in the justice system with a specific focus on youth tried as adults.

Issue Brief: Reform the Nation's Juvenile Justice System

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:00:25 -0500

Across the nation, juvenile courts and corrections systems are littered with poorly conceived strategies that increase crime, endanger young people and damage their future prospects, waste billions of taxpayer dollars, and violate our deepest held principles about equal justice under the law.

Fact Sheet: A Road Map for Juvenile Justice

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:57:56 -0500

In the 2008 KIDS COUNT Data Book, the Annie E. Casey Foundation essay focuses on juvenile justice reform. This fact sheet presents six key challenges and points toward solutions that are proved reform

Feeding Our Future: Growing Up Healthy with WIC

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:54:52 -0500

This report by Children’s HealthWatch highlights the implications of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on very young children. The report details rese

Connecting Youth through Multiple Pathways

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:48:04 -0500

Although about 20 percent of all youth will become at risk of disconnection at some time before reaching the age of 25, only 5 to 7 percent will reach age 25 without connecting in a meaningful way to employment and social support systems.

Child Trends Fact Sheet: Neighborhood Support and Children’s Connectedness

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:44:43 -0500

This fact sheets provides information as to whether children’s outcomes are better if they live in environments that are supportive in terms of family, peers, and community. Results indicate that ch

Engaging in Sustainable Community Change: A Community Guide to Working with a Coach

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:40:32 -0500

This guide is a resource for coaches who are currently working on or are planning to work with communities to promote change.

Engaging Youth in Community Change

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:34:18 -0500

This Making Connections Peer Technical Assistance Match report summarizes the learnings from a meeting of two Making Connections sites -- Hartford, Connecticut, and Providence, Rhode Island -- when ke

Harlem Children's Zone

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:32:10 -0500

Harlem Children’s Zone,®Inc. has experienced incredible growth - from the number of children we serve to the breadth of our services. But one thing has stayed the same: the agency’s “whatever it takes” attitude when it comes to helping children to succeed.

Exploring Quality Choices: Vouchers

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:38:27 -0500

This publication presents an in-depth look at Annie E. Casey Foundation's investment in the Washington, DC voucher
effort and summarizes results and lessons learned so far. It also includes stories about the

Creating Quality Choices: Charters

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:35:51 -0500

This publication provides an overview of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s investments in chartering along
with selected results and lessons learned. It also presents stories about two successful charter

Closing the Achievement Gap

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:29:38 -0500

The Closing the Achievement Gap series explores Casey’s education investments in detail
and presents stories, results, and lessons learned. This particular publication describes Casey’s
efforts to develop a flexible but rigorous results measurement system that enables the

Racial Disparities Found Under State Health Plans

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:12:25 -0500

A detailed analysis of state-provided data has found racial disparities in health care among the three million New Yorkers in the state’s public insurance programs.