• Child Welfare / Permanence
• Community Change
• Center for Family Economic Success
• Education
• Health
• Juvenile Justice
• Special Interest Areas
• Digital Stories

• Providing Direct Services
• Reforming Public Systems
• Providing Strategic Consulting
• Transforming Neighborhoods
• Strengthening Families
• Building Economic Success
• Using Data & Evaluation
• Ensuring Racial & Ethnic Equity

• Child Welfare / Permanence
• Community Change
• Economic Security
• Education
• Juvenile Justice

Race Matters Toolkit

This toolkit is designed to help decision-makers, advocates, and elected officials get better results in their work by providing equitable opportunities for all. The toolkit presents a specific point of view on addressing unequal opportunities by race and offers simple, results-oriented steps to help you achieve your goals.

The following tools are designed to help you make the case, shape the message, and do the work.  Also see the companion series, MORE Race Matters. These publications serve to complement the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Race Matters Toolkit by providing users with additional guidelines, tips and additional tools.

Table of Contents

• Introduction to RACE MATTERS

• User's Guide
• Power Point

• Making the Case    

•  What’s Race Got to Do with It? (Tool) 

    Fact Sheets

        Child and Youth Development
        1. Health
        2. School Readiness
        3. Education
        4. Adolescent Reproductive Health
        5. Youth in Transition

    Family and Community Success
        6. Income Security
        7. Family Economic Success
        8. Rural Family Economic Success
        9. Neighborhood Vitality
        10. Civic Participation

     Public Systems
        11. Child Welfare
        12. Juvenile Justice
        13. Criminal Justice

    Cross-Cutting
        14. Media

• Shaping the Message

•  How To Talk About Race

• Doing the Work

•  Racial Equity Impact Analysis (Tool)
• System Reform Strategies (Tool)
• Community Building Strategies (Tool)
• Organizational Self-Assessment (Tool)

• More Race Matters

• More Race Matters: 3 Tools for Getting Started with the Race Matters Toolkit (Abridged Tools)
• This update provides users with an abridged version of the three key tools in the Race
• Matters Toolkit: What’s Race Got to do with It?; The Racial Equity Impact Analysis; and
• How To Talk About Race.
• Facilitator’s Guide: 3 Tools for Getting Started with the Race Matters Toolkit
• Race Matters: Guidelines for Promoting Racially Equitable Purchasing (Tool)
• Race Matters: Guidelines for Achieving Staff and Board Diversity (Tool)
• Advancing Better Outcomes for All Children: Reporting Data Using a Racial Equity Lens