Publications
Forcing Our Blues Into Gray Areas: Local Police and Federal Immigration Enforcement; A Legal Guide for Advocates, revised and updated (2008), contains legal and practical guidelines to combat local anti- immigrant ordinances.
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“Banking in a Global Market: A Financial Institution Guide for Offering International Remittance Services”
Banking in a Global Market offers a step-by-step approach to establishing a remittance program that is beneficial to both consumers and the financial institutions serving them. The report describes several effective remittance programs, drawing on the experiences of financial institutions in Georgia and throughout the U.S.
Banking in a Global Market Executive Summary | Supplement
The Fair Exchange: Improving the Market for International Remittances
This report is a preliminary step in launching a market-based initiative that would help consumers choose the best remittance value and differentiate between industry players. It provides an opportunity for the industry to work cooperatively with consumer organizations to achieve common goals. The next steps in the process include a limited pilot to test the disclosure in a market setting, and then expanded implementation if the pilot proves successful. These pilots should lay a solid foundation for future work establishing the Fair Exchange.
Click Here for the Exectutive Summary
Finding the Path to Equal Justice
(A Handbook for Adult Defendants with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Families)
Opening the Door:
Justice for Adult Defendants with Mental Retardation
(A Handbook for Attorneys Practicing in Georgia)
Justice for People with Mental Illness in Georgia
A Report on Conversations with Leaders in the Field
The latest Georgia Appleseed report, prepared with the pro bono assistance of King & Spalding, prompted this response that was delivered to lead pro bono attorney Diane M. Janulis:
“I am a parent of an adult child that has bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder. For years my wife and I have voiced our concern with the lack of mental health care in Georgia and the rest of our country. We haven't given up, and we won't because of efforts like yours and your fellow attorneys at King and Spalding. I read through the report [Justice For People With Mental Illness: A Report on Conversations with Leaders in the Field: June 26, 2007] and applaud the findings. They are succinct and simply make a lot of sense. I will pass it along to members of NAMI . . . for them to refer to as they speak to influential leaders in our community.”
A concerned parent of an adult child with mental illness - July 2, 2007
In 2005, Georgia Appleseed Center for Law and Justice joined the national Appleseed network of non-profit, non-partisan, public interest law centers. Around the country and throughout Georgia, Appleseed connects the top private practice lawyers, corporate counsel, law schools, civic leaders, and other professionals to tackle difficult social problems at their root causes.
The money flowing from the United States to Mexico currently represents the largest remittance market in the world. To provide a more complete picture of the impact of the exchange rate spread on pricing, Appleseed Centers collected and analyzed exchange rate data for wiring money from the United States to Mexico. Our study revealed that unpredictable and undisclosed rates make it extremely difficult for consumers to make informed decisions about remitting money to Mexico, and keep the market from operating efficiently for three primary reasons: lack of marketplace transparency, lack of consistent access to correct pricing information, and lack of standardized pricing disclosure practices. Our report offers three recommendations on how to best handle the problem, any one of which would build greater transparency — and consumer protection — into the remittance market.
Expanding Immigrant Access to Mainstream Financial Services
These two papers aim to stimulate a discussion on how best to overcome challenges and build on successes to realize the important social and economic benefits of bringing immigrant communities into the financial mainstream. They outline positive market practices targeting Latin American immigrants and the needs, opportunities, and next steps for expanding and improving financial services for low- and moderate-income immigrant communities. For further reading, see Appleseed's Next Steps.
A Continuing Storm: The On-Going Needs of Hurricane Katrina Evacuees
The first comprehensive report on the status of the more than one million Katrina evacuees reveals that local non-profit and government agencies responded more quickly to assist evacuees than federal and national organizations. The study also identifies continuing areas of dire need for evacuees, including long-term housing and mental health care.
It Takes a Parent: Transforming Education in the Wake of the No Child Left Behind Act
This report documents an effort to combine practical, on-the-ground perspectives, based upon interviews, and on federal, state, and district policy research, with current social science research on key parental involvement issues and effective practices. Mostly, it reflects an effort to assemble and analyze what we know as a matter of practice and as a matter of research in framing an action agenda promoting more effective parental involvement practices by schools, districts, and states.
It Takes a Parent: Additional Resources
In addition to those contained in our report, we have compiled some resources that may prove useful to those who wish to learn more about the importance of parental involvement.
- It Takes a Parent Powerpoint Presentation
- Plain Language Information on NCLB from The Education Trust
- 'Everything You Need to Know about NCLB' The Public Education Network (PEN), working in conjunction with the National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education (NCPIE), has developed materials that community leaders and parents all over the country have requested about understanding NCLB.
- '12 Truths that We Know' In addition to the findings and recommendations in our report, we have captured 12 over-arching ideas that surfaced through our study.
- 'Other Notable Parental Engagement Strategies' In addition to the numerous models and resources contained in our report, our research led us to these promising practices.
- 'Sample Report Cards from Around the Nation' Required by NCLB, these district-level report cards are intended to make school performance data public for parents and the community at large. We have collected a sample of report cards by region.
- 'A Dozen Parental Involvement Ideas that Really Work' Drawn from a list compiled by Dr. John H. Wherry, President of The Parent Institute, these ideas were confirmed in our study.
- Read national and local reaction to 'It Takes a Parent'
No Child Left Behind: Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice Outlines Real Solutions for Parental Involvement in Illinois
Report Details School-Initiated, Parent-Cultivated, and Community Group-Facilitated Model to Improve Student Achievement throughout Illinois
Few people would argue with the notion that parental involvement improves student success in school. Until now, however, little effort has been made to come up with systematic solutions for increasing the role parents play in their children’s education. In a new report, Improving Parental Involvement in Illinois Under the No Child Left Behind Act, Chicago Appleseed offers a model for creating organizational structures that foster parental involvement even in the most disadvantaged school districts. Read more…
Download the full report.
Download the executive summary, including recommendations.
Download a summary of the “Top-Down/Bottom-Up” model for parental involvement.
Download a summary of the recommendations.
