Team Decision Making Added to National Clearinghouse of Evidence-Based Approaches Team Decision Making (TDM) — a collaborative approach to child safety — has reached an important milestone: It is now included in the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare, a searchable database that practitioners use to find programs and practices that have been proven to work. Read More
Infant Mortality Rate at Historic Low The rate of infant mortality has dropped 34% since 1990 in the United States. This proves to be an all-time low in the country. Read More
Watch Our Webinar: Transformational Relationships and Youth Success A new webinar hosted by the Casey Foundation explores transformational relationships and the role that these connections can play in supporting youth success. Read More
Five Questions with Casey: Suzanne Barnard on Evidence2Success As director of the Casey Foundation’s Evidence-Based Practice Group, Suzanne Barnard oversees Evidence2Success, an initiative that champions the power of data and proven programs to improve the lives of children and youth. In this edition of Five Questions with Casey, Barnard talks about the initiative's successes and future work. Read More
Talking Family-Centered Practice With United Way’s Henrietta Muñoz Henrietta Muñoz, senior vice president of research and evaluation at United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County, shares her thoughts on adopting a family-centered practice. In this post, she discusses the values driving this work, training recommendations and how family-centered approaches intersect with evidence-based service models. Read More
More Kids Living in Low-Income Families Today Than Before Recession When it comes to child well-being, the research is clear: Family finances matter. Poverty can impede a child’s ability to learn and contribute to social, emotional and behavioral problems. In total, 31 million kids— 43% of the nation’s children — now live in families that are low-income. Read More
Watch Our Webinar: Policy Reforms to Stop the Criminalization of Poverty in Maryland The Casey Foundation’s new webinar recording explores how a criminal record fuels a cycle of poverty in Maryland and the powerful role that policy reforms can play in disrupting this cycle. Read More
School-to-Career Partnership Helps Youth in Transition Connections to a job and caring adults made through this innovative program helped one youth put her troubles behind her and find the boost she needed to get back on track financially. Read More
Strengthening America’s Immigrant Workforce New reports from the Aspen Institute present a snapshot of how workforce development and immigrant-serving organizations currently intersect, as well as recommendations for how practitioners in these fields can strengthen partnerships to better connect immigrants to skill-building and career advancement opportunities. Read More
As Schools Go Remote, Pivot to Prevention Adds Telehealth Tools With a mission to help schools improve the mental and behavioral health of students, the Pivot to Prevention program — supported by the Annie E. Casey Foundation — has expanded its offerings to include telehealth tools, as more schools shift to remote learning. Read More