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Useful Tools
Assessment Tools
- The Early Childhood System Self-Assessment
National Governor’s Association Center for Best Practices
- A Simple Financing Self-Assessment: Questions to Answer about Financing an Agenda to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families
The Results Based Accountability Implementation Guide
- Strategies for Tough Fiscal Times
PolicyforResults.org
- Toolkit for the Assessment of Bus Stop Accessibility and Safety
Easter Seals Project Action
Calculators
- Basic Family Budget Calculator
Economic Policy Institute
- Carbon Footprint Calculators
City of Austin
- Commute Cost Calculator
Commute Solutions
- Family Resource Simulator: Illustrates the impact of "work supports"—such as earned income tax credits and child care assistance—on the budget of a hypothetical family. Based on the answers provided, the Simulator generates graphs that show how family resources and expenses change as earnings increase
National Center for Children in Poverty
- Inflation Calculator
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Labor Availability Estimator
Texas Workforce Solutions
- Living Wage Calculator
Pennsylvania State University
Resource Guides
- 2010 Central Texas Healthcare Resource Directory: 2nd Edition
Literacy Coalition of Central Texas
- Directory of Services: Serving the Austin and Travis County Community
Austin Travis County Integral Care
- Family Economic Self-Sufficiency Resources: Provides resources and technical assistance to state and local organizations to implement policies and programs that help low-income families achieve economic self-sufficiency
Wider Opportunities for Women
- Foreclosure Avoidance Counseling Directory
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Foreclosure Response: Resources for Preventing Foreclosures and Stabilizing Communities
Center for Housing Policy
- Go-to-College Guidebook
Ready by 21 Austin
- Government Benefits Locator
GovBenefits.gov
- La Salud Mental de su Hijo: Guia para que los Padres Reconozcan Problemas Mentales y Conductuales de Ninos y Jovenes en Edad Escolar
Asociacion para el Planeamiento de la Salud Mental de Ninos y Jovenes
- Literacy Services Directory
Literacy Coalition of Central Texas
- Mental Health Education and Support Group Resource Guide
National Alliance for Mental Illness Austin
- National Resource Directory
The U.S. Departments of Defense, Labor and Veterans Affairs
- Resource Information and Referral Guide for the Treatment of Geriatric Depression
University of Texas School of Social Work
- Resources for Real Kids with Real Needs
Easter Seals Disability Services: Easter Seals Central Texas
- A Social Worker's Tool Kit for Working with Immigrant Families: A Child Welfare Flowchart
The Migration and Child Welfare National Network
- A Social Worker's Toolkit for Working with Immigrant Families: Immigration Status and Relief Options
The Migration and Child Welfare National Network
- Texas Family Care Navigator
Family Caregiver Alliance
- Travis County HHS/VS Family Support Services: Emergency Assistance Programs
Travis County Health and Human Services & Veterans Service
- Travis County Victims of Crime Resource Directory
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
- Your Child's Mental Health: A Parent's Guide to Recognizing Mental and Behavioral Health Issues for School-Aged Children and Youth – English
Austin/Travis County Child and Youth Mental Health Planning Partnership
- Youth Services Mapping System
Ready by 21; Austin Independent School District; ACCESS; Safe Schools, Healthy Students; Workforce Solutions Capital Area
Strategic and Informational Guidebooks
- The 2008 HHS Poverty Guidelines
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- 2010 Census Overview
U.S. Census Bureau
- Achieving Graduation for All: A Governor's Guide to Dropout Prevention and Recovery
NGA Center for Best Practices
- A City Platform for Strengthening Families and Improving Outcomes for Children and Youth
National League of Cities
- Communicating for Action: A Practical Handbook
Community Action Network
- Community-Based School Readiness Integration Partnerships: Promoting Sustainable Collaborations
Texas Early Childhood Education Coalition
- Community-Level Indicators for Understanding Health and Human Services Issues: A Compendium of Selected Indicator Systems and Resource Organizations
Research Triangle Institute, Child Trends
- Connected by 25: Effective Policy Solutions for Vulnerable Youth
Youth Transition Funders Group
- Creating Stronger Linkages between Community Indicator Projects and Government Performance Measurement Efforts
Community Indicators Consortium
- Criteria for Selecting Strategies
PolicyforResults.org
- EITC Interactive: Shows How Proposed Expansions to the Earned Income Tax Credit Would Benefit Taxpayers in Selected States, Metropolitan Areas, and Cities Across the Nation
The Brookings Institute
- Feeding America’s Families: How Elected Officials Can Help Families in Need Receive Food Stamps and Nutrition Assistance
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Forum Planning Task List
Community Action Network
- Good Community is Good Business
Leadership Austin
- A Guide to Resources for Creating, Locating, and Using Child and Youth Indicator Data
Child Trends, Kids Count
- Human Services Systems Integration: A Conceptual Framework
Institute for Research on Poverty
- Increasing Communication, Collaboration, and Citizen Participation in Governments Through Social Media
National Association for County Community & Economic Development
- Listening to the Stars: The Constellation Model of Collaborative Social Change
Shuttleworth Foundation, Toronto's Centre for Social Innovation
- Mass Medical Care with Scare Resources: The Essentials
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality – U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
- News Conference Checklist
Community Action Network
- NNIP Lessons on Data Sharing
National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership
- Performance Accountability for Programs, Agencies, and Service Systems
Fiscal Policy Studies Institute
- Poverty Elimination Strategies that Work: A Human Rights Toolkit for Addressing for Addressing Poverty in Your Community
Heartland Alliance
- Quality Growth Toolbox
Envision Central Texas
- Regional Transit Coordination Guidebook
Center for Transportation Training and Research at Texas Southern University, Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University System
- Reporting Performance Information: Suggested Criteria for Effective Communication
Governmental Accounting Standards Board
- The State of City Leadership for Children and Families
National League of Cities: Institute for Youth, Education, and Families
- Successful Corporate Approaches to Addressing Mental Health in the Workplace
Partnership for Workplace Mental Health
- What do Victims Want?: Effective Strategies to Achieve Justice for Victims of Crime
International Association of Chiefs of Police
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