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Following | HealthySteps | June 24, 2019

A Noble Collaboration: Capital Flows to Social-Service Groups

Barron's reports on the comprehensive care HealthySteps provides low-income children and families, and how Blue Meridian Partners aggregates funding to expand this and other programs helping impoverished Americans.

via www.barrons.com

Following | Nurse-Family Partnership | May 1, 2019

Toxic Stress and Children’s Outcomes

An Economic Policy Institute report highlights Nurse-Family Partnership as a program that promotes protective parenting and reduces the pressures that affect African Americans disproportionately.  

via www.epi.org

Following | Youth Villages | March 22, 2019

Has Tennessee Solved Oregon’s Foster Care Crisis?

Oregon Public Broadcasting describes what its state’s troubled child welfare system can learn from Youth Villages’ Intercept program: Help kids (and their families) in their own homes.

via www.opb.org

Following | Reading Partners | March 21, 2019

Striving to Fund Oakland Reading Centers

The San Francisco Chronicle describes the critical importance of Reading Partners to Oakland, where 50% of students read below grade level.  

via www.sfchronicle.com

Following | Center for Employment Opportunities | February 28, 2019

Improving Long-Term Employment Outcomes

CEO reports that a new study documents its positive effects on recidivism and long-term employment in New York State.

via ceoworks.org

Following | PACE Center for Girls | January 31, 2019

Focusing on Girls’ Futures

An evaluation by MDRC finds the Florida-based program improves the academic enrollment, attendance and performance of young women involved or at risk of involvement in the juvenile justice system.

via www.mdrc.org