FosterClub Offers Youth Perspective on March CaseyChat The Casey Foundation and FosterClub Executive Celeste Bodner teamed up for a Twitter chat on foster parenting. This post offers an inspiring snapshot of the conversation that unfolded during the session. Read More
Five Questions with Casey: Barbara Squires on Social Sector Leadership Barbara Squires, Casey's director of Leadership Development, discusses advancing public sector leadership for kids and families. Read More
Summary of Recommendations for Federal Child Welfare Financing This handout summarizes policy recommendations for realigning federal child welfare financing to support best practices in four key areas. Read More
Evidence and Interest Grow for Program Promoting Educational Success for Students in Foster Care FosterEd, an initiative of the National Center for Youth Law, aims to improve educational outcomes for students in foster care. Learn how this porgram is helping policymakers provide positive educational outcomes for foster youth. Read More
Sept. 18 Webinar: Six Factors to Consider When Evaluating Evidence-Based Programs On September 18, 2018, the Annie E. Casey and William T. Grant foundations will be hosting a webinar aimed at helping child welfare leaders use the Hexagon Tool to better select and install evidence-based programs that will benefit children and families. Read More
New Casey Web Tool May Transform Case Management in Child Welfare Learn about Casebook, an Internet-based application that adopts some of the same social networking tools people use every day at home and at work to help child welfare professionals serve children and families more effectively. Read More
Reflecting on Casey's 2003 Report on the High Cost of Being Poor As a part of the 2003 KIDS COUNT Data Book, "The High Cost of Being Poor: Another Perspective on Helping Low-Income Families Get By and Get Ahead" documented the inflated charges people in poor communities pay for everything from groceries to check cashing. Read More
Community Matters: A New Casey Webinar Series Casey's new Community Matters webinar series explores the complex issues surrounding community change — and the lessons we and others have learned from our work in communities throughout the country. The first in the series, Partnering With Residents in Community Change: Strategies for Engagement and Community Building, highlights the role place-based funders can play in supporting and encouraging resident-led community change, drawing from our new report on our community-building work in Atlanta as well as the experience of the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation. Read More
New Paper Examines Role of Centers of Excellence in Promoting Systems Reform In a new paper, The Institute for Innovation & Implementation at the University of Maryland School of Social Work and The Center for Innovative Practices at Case Western Reserve University explain how Centers of Excellence work help improve outcomes for children and families in communities across the country. Read More
Are Adult Decisions Doing Kids Harm in the Juvenile Justice System? The Foundation has produced a brief video to highlight how adult decision makers in the juvenile justice system, looking to address and rehabilitate counterproductive actions in young people, ironically make decisions that instead damage young lives and open the door to youth becoming a greater threat to public safety. Read More