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.
Featured Publications
Balancing Justice with Mercy: An Interfaith Guide for Creating Healing Communities
2008
This guide, developed for an interfaith audience in secular language, 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? 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 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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Achieving the Six Core Results:The Role of Faith-Based Organizations
2006
This report provides research connecting Casey’s six Core Results with ministries and outreach activities of congregations and faith-based institutions. Programs like the North Carolina Jobs for Life reflect the potential for faith-based institutions to transform the lives of neighborhoods of disadvantaged families.
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Leadership Matters: The Role of Latino/a Religious Leadership in Social Ministry
2006
This report’s applied research information about Latino/a congregations and their leaders offers an informed portrait of the needs, aspirations, and challenges facing Latino/a ministers of faith-based organizations. The authors of this report looked at the role of religious leaders who act as catalysts for change by mobilizing and building grassroots organizations.
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