Faith-Based Initiatives
You are in the Faith-Based Initiatives section of the Casey Foundation Knowledge Center, which offers resources that are either published or funded by the Casey Foundation. Resources address faith-based institutions as central partners in community building and family strengthening.
See also Our Work: Faith-Based Initiatives, an overview of Casey's investment in this issue.
What Shall We Then Do? An Interdenominational Guide and Kit for Creating Healing Communities
2008
This guide, developed for an interdenominational Christian audience, illuminates the Healing Communities model. This model seeks to engage congregations in restoration and healing people in their own congregations who have been affected by crime and incarceration. It does this by transforming hearts and minds, creating a sense of welcome inclusion, reducing stigma and shame, and building networks of support that start in houses of worship and expand to the community at large.
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What Shall We Then Do? A Family Freedom Kit for Creating Healing Communities
2008
This guide, developed in partnership with the Progressive National Baptist Convention, illuminates the Healing Communities model. This model seeks to engage congregations in restoration and healing people in their own congregations who have been affected by crime and incarceration. It does this by transforming hearts and minds, creating a sense of welcome inclusion, reducing stigma and shame, and building networks of support that start in houses of worship and expand to the community at large.
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Bringing Together Faith & Community Leaders: 2006 SCUPE Congress on Urban Ministry
2006
This document highlights presentations and lessons learned from Casey's "conference within a conference" at the 2006 SCUPE Congress on Urban Ministry. Participants included 33 participants, ranging from clergy, faith leaders and site team members from six Making Connections sites and four Civic Sites. Participants identified their work within the community in relation to Casey's Core Results, and developed an action plan to fulfill possible next steps to advance their work.
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Bringing Together Faith and Community Leaders: 2006 Samuel Dewitt Proctor Pastors and Lay Leadership Conference
2006
This document highlights presentations and lessons learned from the 2006 Samuel DeWitt Proctor Pastors Conference. Participants included faith leaders from 10 Making Connections sites and two Civic Sites. While emphasizing social justice and models of successful outreach strategies, participants partook in conversations on initiatives surrounding Making Connections, Core Results, Successful Parenting and Family Formation, and Prisoner Reentry and the Role of the Church.
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Faithful Citizenship Project: Congregational Profiles - A Guide to Non-partisan Voter Registration in Religious Congregations
2006
This report, prepared by the Interfaith Worker Justice, presents promising strategies and practices that highlight the important role faith communities play in encouraging congregation members and community members to have a voice in the political process by providing a safe place for voter education and registration.
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