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Family Strengthening News:

October 2008

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Strategies for Promoting the 3 Fundamentals of Strong Families
Writ Large Policy Brief

Strategies for nurturing relationships, quality support systems, and financial stability.

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Featured Resource

New!! KIDS COUNT 2008 Data Book & Center

Updated national and state-level data on America's children, youth, and families is now available in the Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2008 KIDS COUNT Data Book. In addition to the traditional report, the foundation has an easy-to-use, powerful online database -- the KIDS COUNT Data Center. Users can generate custom graphs, maps, ranked lists, and state-by-state profiles; they can also download the entire data set as delimited text files.

Be sure to read this year's KIDS COUNT essay as it provides a road map for juvenile justice reform based on research and practice.
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Welcome to the Family Strengthening Policy Center!

The Center aims to make family strengthening a priority by mainstreaming neighborhood-based, family-centered practices, programs and policy.  By leveraging the National Human Services Assembly's network of 70 health and human service member organizations, the Center's objective is to promote family policy that contributes to family economic and social empowerment.  Learn more about the Center here.

What's New

What is the connection between:

  • Our workplace practices;
  • Employees’ and volunteers’ job performance and retention; and
  • The families of paid and volunteer staff?

And, how are other nonprofits leveraging these linkages to become more effective organizations?

Addressing these questions and more are two new resources from the Family Strengthening Policy Center:

  • Low Quality Jobs Can Be Costly for Employers, Families (a fact sheet with success stories)
  • NeighborWorks® America: A Caring Workplaces, Committed Employees Case Study

Caring Workplace Practices:  A Catalog for Nonprofit Human Services

Caring Workplaces, Committed Employees Online Resource Center

Go to our new Caring Workplaces, Committed Employees online resource center for nonprofit human services organizations.  Visitors will find resources to help them support and enhance employee and volunteer commitment to their organizations and the children, youth, families, and communities they serve.   

 

A Proud Partner of the Annie E. Casey Foundation

The Family Strengthening Policy Center was created with generous support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation as part of the Foundation's Neighborhood Transformation/Family Development and Making Connections initiatives.  Learn more about Making Connections and how communities across the country are putting family strengthening principles into action here.

 
The Family Strengthening Policy Center was developed
with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
   

 

Children do better when their families are strong, and families do better when they live in communities that help them to succeed .                    - Annie E. Casey Foundation