Blog Archive

TST-FC: Helping Children in Foster Care Manage Their Feelings and Behavior

When a child who has experienced trauma melts down emotionally, kin and foster caregivers can struggle to identify triggers and help them calm down. The ramifications of this can be devastating. Enter a powerful new tool, Trauma Systems Therapy for Foster Care (TST-FC), that aims to help caregivers meet the needs of kids and teenagers who have experienced trauma.

Straight to the Source: A KIDS COUNT Demographer Talks All Things Data

This episode of CaseyCast covers all things data with the Population Reference Bureau's Linda Jacobsen, a veteran demographer who helps collect and analyze the child-well being statistics featured in the KIDS COUNT Data Book.

New Jersey Taps Implementation Science to Improve Child Welfare Practices

Using the principles of implementation science, New Jersey is launching an all-out effort supported by the Casey Foundation to institute evidence-based approaches to improve outcomes in its child welfare system.

How To: Creating a Kin-First Culture in Child Welfare

Thanks to a new how-to guide on on kinship care, child welfare practitioners can get step-by-step guidance on how to ensure more children are placed with relatives when their parents cannot care for them.

Evaluating Programs in Complex Systems: New Approaches

Increasingly, human service programs that serve children and families together often are embedded in complex systems. Integrating these services that traditionally have been separate requires a new approach to evaluation as well.

Scholars Named to Program Promoting Diversity in the Evaluation Field

The Casey Foundation recently welcomed 20 new scholars into its Leaders in Equitable Evaluation and Diversity (LEEAD) program, part of an effort to increase the ranks of underrepresented researchers of color in leadership positions in the evaluation field.

Child Poverty Still Falling — and Close to Pre-Recession Rate

The latest data indicate that 19% of U.S. kids are now living in poverty. This translates to 14 million kids across the country growing up poor in 2016.

Record Coverage for Kids: 95% of U.S. Children Have Health Insurance

The percentage of children without health insurance has hit a historic low. Just 5% of U.S. kids lack medical insurance coverage, according to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Jabari: Reaching His Full Potential

"Growing up, my dream was to be a vet," recalls Jabari. "As I got older, life happened. There were trials and tribulations, and I got off track from that dream." Learn how an evidence-based program helped this young man pivot and reach his potential.