{"id":31209,"date":"2016-04-01T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caseyfamilyv2.wpengine.com\/geography-matters-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:56:09","slug":"geography-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casey.org\/es\/geography-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Geography Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-section light fresh-text single wp-block-fresh-text backgrounds-and-margins-aware-block margin-top margin-bottom\">\n <div class=\"container mx-auto px-5\">\n\n \n \n <!-- The CTA is moved up next to the title when in the Head Section style -->\n \n  <div class=\"callout\"><p>Child maltreatment and prevention research has demonstrated the influence that neighborhood characteristics \u2014 for example, concentrated poverty and the degree of residential instability \u2014 have on families, children, and rates of child maltreatment in a community. To increase awareness of\u00a0how and why a family&#8217;s community matters, Casey Family Programs is pleased to share this two-page overview of the utility of using geographic analysis techniques and mapping in child welfare. It\u00a0draws attention to these tools and provides examples of how they can be useful to improve system, service, family or child outcomes and to inform community-building efforts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n \n <!-- conversly to above, we need to not show the CTA here if it's the Head Section style -->\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"fifty-fifty backgrounds-and-margins-aware-block back-sprint-wood-gradient margin-top margin-bottom padding-top wp-block-fifty-fifty\">\n <div class=\"container mx-auto px-5\">\n <div class=\"grid split-6040 media-left addon-button\">\n <div class=\"content pt-7 md:pt-0\">\n   <div class=\"label text-revolver mb-7 pre-header\">Read the overview<\/div>\n   <h2>Geography Matters<\/h2>\n   <div class=\"my-6 text-salt-box\"><p>This two-page overview explains the utility of using geographic analysis techniques and mapping in child welfare.<\/p>\n<p>PDF: 1.44 MB<\/p>\n<\/div>\n   <a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/geography-matters.pdf\" target=\"\">Descargar<\/a>\n   <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"gap\"><\/div>\n <div class=\"media  pt-0 md:pt-9\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Pages-from-geography-matters.pdf-1187x1536.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n  <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This two-page overview explains the utility of using geographic analysis techniques and mapping in child welfare.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[276,265],"content_type":[201],"hidden-tags-misc":[],"audience":[313,317,498],"content_location":[329],"topic":[411,413,454,459],"class_list":["post-31209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-resources","category-support-effective-public-and-private-investments","content_type-report","audience-academia-researcher","audience-child-welfare-leader","audience-social-worker-direct-practitioner","content_location-national","topic-child-safety","topic-collaboration-and-partnership","topic-poverty","topic-research"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.4 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - 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