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Center for the Study of Social Policy		 Working to Create Opportunities for America's Children and Families and their Communities


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Major Initiatives
The Center for the Study of Social Policy's mission is to promote policies and practices that improve the living conditions and opportunities of low-income and other disadvantaged persons.

The center's major work is organized into three related areas of general activity consistent with its mission:
Connects people participating in the Foundationīs Making Connections initiative with the knowledge, tools, promising practices, and learning opportunities that can help them strengthen families and build stronger neighborhoods. Peer TA brings policy makers, neighborhood residents, and practitioners together with colleagues from other parts of the country to work through complex issues, design and adopt new policies and practices, build constructive and lasting relationships, and make decisions that ultimately improve results for children, families, and communities. An international network of policymakers, practitioners, and researchers dedicated to helping member nations develop through international exchange more effective policies, better services, and stronger communities to support families. A process wherein a community takes responsibility for developing and implementing a strategic agenda to achieve better results and improve the quality of life for the entire community. A project to develop and implement the community partnership approach to change fundamental thinking about how society protects children and to reform our nation's child welfare system. A project exploring the role that early care and education programs play in preventing child abuse and neglect and promoting the healthy development of children and families. A pioneering approach to resolving class action litigation by encouraging and supporting positive systemic change and using the power of the litigation to address longstanding problems in child welfare systems. A project to develop results-focused, evidence-based benchmarks for a range of state policies that improve the lives of American families and children. A framework for improving the quality of human services through a more results-oriented and more visible partnership between human resource management and human services administration. In nearly every state in U.S., African American, American Indian/Native Alaskan and Latino children under age 18 are overrepresented in the child welfare system when compared to their numbers in the general population. CSSP Image Map