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The RCI Toolbox, published by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, features experiences and lessons learned from the Rebuilding Communities Initiative, which focused on transforming five troubled urban neighborhoods into safe, supportive and productive environments. Includes overview publication, interactive CD-ROM, monographs and evaluation reports. 410-223-2890; www.aecf.org/publications.
The 2002 Anti-Predatory Lending Toolkit is available from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. A copy can be downloaded at www.ncrc.org; members can order the kit for $5 ($10 nonmembers) by calling NCRC, 202-628-8866.
The Civil Rights Project at the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty has two free guide books available on line: Combating the Criminalization of Homelessness, a guide to understanding and preventing legislation that criminalizes life-sustaining activities, and Constructive Alternatives to Criminalization, which profiles four alternatives to criminalization and gives tips to consider when planning your own alternatives. To download the booklets, go to www.nlchp.org, click on the “civil rights” tab on the left and scroll down to the “news” section. For more information, contact Pallavi Rai, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, 1411 K Street, NW, Suite 1400, Washington, DC 20005, 202-638-2535; www.nlchp.org.
The Midwest Longitudinal Study of Homeless Adolescents was created by sociologists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and involves eight midwestern cities. The three-year survey (now in its second year) is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. Full-time outreach workers visit the shelters, streets, bus stations, malls and other areas where runaways congregate to interview them periodically. The study has so far found that teen-age runaways often leave home because of physical and sexual abuse and are more likely than other teens to suffer from mental disorders, post-traumatic stress, substance abuse and severe depression. A report on these and other survey findings can be found at www.mwhomeless.com.
A study by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research has found that
since the welfare reform of 1996, impoverished children in single-parent families receive less aid than under the previous system; the most disadvantaged of these children have slipped deeper into poverty. For example, for children younger than six living in extreme poverty, monthly family income declined from $380 to $301, a decline of $79 per month on average. The study was funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. A research brief, based on the full study which will be published in late 2002, is available at www.iwpr.org/pdf/d451.pdf.
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