The Future of Public Housing: Confronting the Challenges Facing the Public...
In October 2019, the Urban Institute and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities launched the Future of Public Housing Initiative. The initiative kicked off with a convening of practitioners,...
View ArticleMoving Families Forward: Initial Findings from a Two-Generation Program in...
Since late 2017, the Urban Institute’s Housing Opportunities and Services Together team has partnered with public housing authority BangorHousing and the Boys & Girls Club of Bangor, Maine, in a...
View ArticleEmployers, Young People, and Training and Support
In this report, we present baseline and process study findings of an evaluation of the Urban Alliance High School Internship Program, which provides professional internships, mentorship and coaching,...
View ArticleDeveloping Place-Based Two-Generation Partnerships
Over seven years, local partnerships in Buffalo, New York, Columbus, Ohio, and San Antonio, Texas, embarked on an initiative focused on high-poverty neighborhoods with long histories of economic...
View ArticlePromoting Adolescent Sexual Health and Safety, a Community-Based Collaboration
Promoting Adolescent Sexual Health and Safety (PASS) is a unique, community-based effort in Washington, DC, to create and evaluate a program for teenagers that is focused on sexual health and tailored...
View ArticleThe Costs of Coordinating Two-Generation Programs: Appendixes
These appendixes describe how we used data collected in a time-use survey to estimate the staff labor costs reported in The Costs of Coordinating Two-Generation Programs: Estimating Labor Costs of...
View ArticleDeveloping Two-Generation Approaches in Communities
Family-Centered Community Change (FCCC), launched by the Annie E. Casey Foundation (the Foundation), supported local partnerships in three neighborhoods with low economic resources over seven years...
View ArticleThe Costs of Coordinating Two-Generation Programs
Across the United States, interest has grown in two-generation approaches as a strategy for lifting families out of poverty. These approaches vary in the combination of services they offer and their...
View ArticleCommunity-Engaged Approaches to Evaluating a Collective Impact Effort
The Family-Centered Community Change (FCCC) effort, launched by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, supported local service partnerships over eight years (2012–19) in three neighborhoods with high poverty...
View ArticleBlueprint for the Next Generation of Place-Based Policy Policy...
This policy example on the Promise Neighborhoods program is a companion to the report A Blueprint for the Next Generation of Federal Place-Based Policy. The blueprint offers a two-step process for...
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