Casey Launches Initiative in the South to Reduce Debt for Families of Color The Casey Foundation has awarded $580,000 in grants to seven partnerships working to reduce household debt in communities of color throughout the South. Read More
What’s Standing in the Way of Evidence-Based Programs? Evidence-based programs could play a real game-changing role for child and family programs if the dissemination of such programs reached a larger segment of the population. A new report examines the lack of dissemination and offers recommendations. Read More
New Guide Helps Leaders Advocate for SNAP E&T Programs Seattle Jobs Initiative, with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, has released the SNAP E&T Advocates Guide, which serves as a blueprint for leaders interested in helping states develop and expand skills-based SNAP E&T programs. Read More
American Indian Kids Face Some of the Greatest Challenges to Success American Indian kids are struggling to access paths to opportunity, according to the Casey Foundation’s recently released Race for Results report. Read More
Two Out of Three Kids in America Are Living With Both Parents Two out of three children in America live in a married-couple household, according to the KIDS COUNT Data Center. Read More
Puerto Rico’s Kids by the Numbers In the wake of Hurricane Maria, the news cycle regularly features stories about life in Puerto Rico. Yet, the island is still a mystery to many mainland Americans. KIDS COUNT Data show what life was like on the island before Maria hit. Read More
Two Leaders Confront a Major Roadblock — Structural Racism — in Their Pursuit of Equity On paper, the two leaders shared a goal: to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system. In reality, their different perspectives coupled with unaddressed pain and anger stemming from structural racism threatened to undermine their work. Read More
Federal Grant Gives Evidence2Success Efforts in Utah a Boost The Kearns Community Coalition, which is implementing the Casey Foundation's Evidence2Success framework in Salt Lake County, Utah, has received a major boost: a five-year, $625,000 grant from the Office of National Drug Control to curb alcohol and e-cigarette use among teens. Read More
Strengthening the Federal Infrastructure for Evidence-based Policymaking A new report from the Forum for Youth Investment offers a blueprint for building a strong infrastructure that promotes the use of evidence and research at every stage of the federal policymaking process. Read More
Casey Fellow in Focus: Finding New Ways to Help Youth in Trouble Felipe Franco is one of 16 visionary leaders who recently graduated from the Casey Foundation’s Children and Family Fellowship. His story demonstrates what Fellows can accomplish when they apply the tools and competencies of Results Count — the Foundation’s results-based leadership approach — to achieve measurable results in child well-being. Read More
