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Maintaining and Expanding the Pipeline: Guidance, Strategies, and Reflections on Sustaining a Promise Neighborhood

2017

This brief provides a framework and guiding questions to support Promise Neighborhoods in preparing for sustainability, with the approach that sustainability should be incorporated into overall strategy development.

(32 pp)

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Voices of Partners: Findings from the Community/Stakeholder Engagement Study—Executive Summary

January 2017

The California Endowment (TCE) launched its Community/Stakeholder Engagement process in 2016 as part of a mid-point review of Building
Healthy Communities (BHC). This executive summary details learnings from a wide range of people involved in or knowledgeable about BHC.

Read the full report here.

(16 pp)

Report

Voices of Partners: Findings from the Community/Stakeholder Engagement Study—Full Report

January 2017

The California Endowment (TCE) launched its Community/Stakeholder Engagement process in 2016 as part of a mid-point review of Building
Healthy Communities (BHC). This report details learnings from a wide range of people involved in or knowledgeable about BHC.

Read the Executive Summary here.

(66 pp)

Report

EC-LINC Research to Action: Measuring the Impact of Early Childhood Systems

December 2016

This report, created by the EC-LINC Outcomes & Metrics workgroup, focuses on population-level outcomes for young children and their families, identified a set of indicators for each, and explored the feasibility of gathering and tracking data for each of them at the community level. 

(66 pp)

Brief

Working Toward Well-Being: Community Approaches to Toxic Stress

July 2016

This brief works towards shifting the conversation about toxic stress. It addresses its root causes, growth toward understanding, as well as community-level strategies. It also discusses toxic stress in cities. 

(12 pp)

Report

Fostering Resident Voice and Influence in Community Change: The Making Connections Experience with Resident Engagement and Leadership

2016

This report shares information on resident engagement from start-up to phase down and addresses strategies for seeding initial conversations, results-based leadership training, and sustaining resident engagement strategies. 

(36 pp)

Report

50 State Survey: Licensing Regulations in Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice, and Systems Serving Runaway and Homeless Youth

2016

The following research presents a survey of 50 states and the District of Columbia on current state child welfare, juvenile justice, and runaway and homeless systems’ licensing regulations as they relate to sex, gender identity, and gender expression.

(5 pp)

Report

Building a Culture of Results: A Guide to Emerging Practices in Promise Neighborhoods Summary

January 2016

This guidebook highlights the "culture of results" adopted by Promise Neighborhoods and how the program ensures that effective solutions are launched, tracked, improved, and sustained. 

(72 pp)

Brief

Strong Families: Parenting Brochure

2015

This brief is a brochure for parents outlining the five protective factors. It emphasizes the need for parents to be intentional about taking care of themselves, being informed, and seeking help.
(6 pp)

Report

Quality Service Reviews: A Mechanism for Case-Level Advocacy and System Reform

August 2015

It is widely recognized that the quality of work and interventions directly impacts on the well-being outcomes of children and families. This report examines the quality service review which is a mechanism that can be used for system reform.

(16 pp)