Help Kids Thrive by Focusing Child Welfare Casework on Family Permanence In A Child Welfare Leader’s Desk Guide to Building a High-Performing Agency, the Casey Foundation describes how child welfare casework can do more to provide children with stable living situations and build children’s long-term family relationships. Read More
Register for Child Welfare Webinar on Connecting Kids to Family Through Casework Every kid needs a family — which is why child welfare casework should focus on family relationships and permanence. To learn how public agencies can implement high-performing practices, join the Casey Foundation for Getting to Permanence: The Practices of High-Performing Child Welfare Agencies, a webinar at 2 p.m. EST on July 19, 2016. Read More
Moving Kids Out of Poverty is Possible; Casey’s New Podcast Explores How In this episode of CaseyCast, the Foundation’s Lisa Hamilton and the Brookings Institution’s Ron Haskins discuss America’s stubborn child poverty rate and how we can boost economic mobility among low-income families. Read More
Patrick McCarthy on Supreme Court's United States v. Texas Decision Casey Foundation President & CEO Patrick McCarthy offers his reflections on the recent Supreme Court decision blocking President Obama's executive order on immigration and what it means for children and families. Read More
Five Questions with Casey: Cynthia Weaver on Bringing Evidence2Success to Alabama As a senior associate with Casey’s Evidence-Based Practice Team, Cynthia Weaver works to expand the use of programs backed by scientific evidence to reap results in helping vulnerable kids and families succeed. Read More
Removing Barriers to Everyday Experiences: Normalcy and Foster Care The Casey Foundation’s Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative addresses challenges faced by youth in foster care and aims to make their experiences as typical when compared to thier peers not in custody. Read More
Upcoming Webinar: Identifying Community Priorities for Child Well-Being Join the Casey Foundation for Identifying Community Priorities for Child Well-Being, part of the Using What Works to Improve Child Well-Being webinar series, at 1 p.m. ET, Thursday, July 21. This free webinar requires registration. Read More
Minnesota in Focus: The KIDS COUNT Chart-topper Talks Success For the second year in a row, Minnesota topped the nation’s KIDS COUNT Index for overall child well-being. The state also captured top-10 spots — No. 1 in health; No. 3 in economic well-being; No. 6 in education and No. 4 in family and community. Read More
Generation Z Breaks Records in Education and Health Despite Growing Economic Instability of Families The teenagers of Generation Z — the rising cohort born after 1995 that follows the Millennials — broke records in education and health indicators despite growing up in the midst of the economic downturn, according to the 2016 KIDS COUNT Data Book from the Annie. E. Casey Foundation. Read More
Engaging Parents as Key Partners in Closing the Vocabulary Gap A growing body of research, as well as some promising new pilot programs, underscore the urgent need to close the vocabulary gap between children who are raised in poverty and those from middle-income families — a gap that can lead to enduring academic problems as children grow up. Read More
