Webinar: Young People Share Insights on Getting and Keeping Youth Involved in Programs A Foundation webinar offers young people’s perspectives on youth engagement and retention strategies — what it took to get them involved in programs and what kept them away. Read More
Child Poverty Declines After Peaking in 2011 After the Great Recession, the nation's child poverty rate increased steadily, peaking at 23% in 2011. Since then, the rate has been on a slow decline and, in 2015, reached its lowest level in five years, at which point one out of every five children lived in poverty. Read More
Webinar: Learn About Strategic Financing for Tested, Effective Programs Join the Foundation at 2 p.m. ET, Thursday, Oct. 13, for the latest webinar in the Using What Works webinar series. Strategic Financing for Tested, Effective Programs will highlight financing tools and strategies from Casey’s Evidence2Success framework. Read More
Georgia Lawmaker Stacey Abrams Tells How State Policymaking Can Help Families and Kids Succeed In this episode of CaseyCast, host Lisa Hamilton talks with Stacey Abrams, minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives, about the role of state policymaking in improving the lives of children and families. Read More
Four Compelling Reasons to Use Racial Equity Impact Assessments for Policy Decisions Tools for Thought: Using Racial Equity Impact Assessments for Effective Policymaking, the third installment of the Race for Results case study series, highlights the use and effectiveness of Racial Equity Impact Assessment (REIA) tools, and gives leaders and advocates a tangible mechanism to craft race-conscious legislation and policies. Read More
How Intersectionality Promotes Equitable Opportunities for Children and Youth An intersectional analysis of disaggregated data uncovers the extent to which LGBTQ youth in the juvenile justice system experience discrimination. While intersectionality unveils disparate outcomes, it can also be used as a powerful platform for advocacy. Read More
Supporting Neighborhood Leadership and Change in Atlanta: A Video on the Community Investment Fund A new video highlights the Foundation’s Community Investment Fund, which supports resident-led neighborhood improvement projects in southwest Atlanta. Read More
Jim Casey Initiative Builds on Momentum in Advancing its Vision for Young People A new Casey report, Preparing for the Road Ahead: Helping Young People Transition from Foster Care to Adulthood, touts the successes and underscores the vision of the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative in helping young people in foster care socially, emotionally, financially, intellectually and physically. Read More
New Evidence2Success Video Highlights Shifting Public Financing to What Works A new video, Evidence2Success: Tools for Fund-Mapping the Future, shows how Evidence2Success sites in Alabama, Rhode Island and Utah are pulling together local data to help communities better align resources with locally determined priority outcomes. Read More
America’s Foster Care Population Is Growing — Again America’s foster care population grew by 13,000 children and youth — to more than 415,000 kids total — from 2013 to 2014, according to the KIDS COUNT Data Center. Read More
