Best Practices & Results

Promising Practices Network Update

Below are recent updates to the Promising Practices Network on Children, Families and Communities at http://www.promisingpractices.net/.

Self-Sufficient Families
http://www.promisingpractices.net/research.asp#selfsufficient%20

The National School Lunch Program: Ensuring that Meal Benefits Go to the Poor. Mathematica Policy Research Inc., April 2005.

Basic Facts about Low-Income Children in the U.S.
National Center for Children in Poverty, February 2005.

Kids Count Pocket Guide: Children Living on the Southwest Border.
Annie E. Casey Foundation, February 2005.

The Promising Practices Network is supported by:

• Annie E. Casey Foundation
• The Children's Institute
• Colorado Foundation for Families and Children
• The Colorado Trust
• The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
• Family and Community Trust
• Family Connection Partnership
• Foundation Consortium for California's Children & Youth
• KidsOhio.org
• New York State Office of Children & Family Services
• Northwest Early Childhood Institute
• Oregon Commission on Children and Families
• Parents Action for Children (formerly the I Am Your Child Foundation)
• RAND Corporation
• The Spencer Foundation