More than 20% of U.S. Kids Have Not Had Preventative Dental Care A healthy mouth helps children maintain better self-esteem, nutrition and overall health, according to experts. Yet, the likelihood that a child has teeth in excellent or very good condition varies nationwide. Read More
New Report: KIDS COUNT Shows Value of Long-Term Philanthropic Investment For more than 25 years, KIDS COUNT has been the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s flagship investment for providing public officials and child advocates with data, tools and policy recommendations to improve outcomes for vulnerable children.A new report tells the story of how a single data book documenting measures of child well-being tranformed into a mission-critical vehicle for building bipartisan support for proven solutions and policy change. Read More
Families Lost Income, Struggled to Make Ends Meet During Pandemic From 2020 to 2021, about 40% of U.S. families with kids struggled to pay for regular household expenses. Learn which families were hardest hit. Read More
Photographer Richard Ross and Capturing the Experience of Juvenile Confinement Richard Ross is a professional photographer based in Santa Barbara, California, whose work has received numerous grants from philanthropic funders to continue his work capturing the plight of juveniles. Read More
Five Questions With Casey: Samantha Mellerson Talks Capacity Building Samantha Mellerson is the Foundation’s senior associate for capacity building. She works to strengthen nonprofits so that they can help children and families — regardless of their race, class, ethnicity or hometown — reach their potential. Read More
Diversity Among U.S. Child Population Continues to Increase Kids of color will represent a majority of children in the United States by 2018, according to Census Bureau projections. Read More
Five Questions with Casey: Rob Geen and the Importance of Family In this "Five Questions" edition, Geen discusses findings from the KIDS COUNT Policy Report, Every Kid Needs a Family, about the importance of connecting children in foster care with families. Read More
One Baltimore for Jobs Strengthens Local Workforce Systems One Baltimore for Jobs, an initiative supported by the Casey Foundation, has helped hundreds of young adults from disinvested city neighborhoods get jobs in construction, health care, transportation and other high-growth industries. Read More
Evidence2Success in Providence: A Report on Implementation A new report, Evidence2Success in Providence: Using Programs That Work, provides an overview of the model’s implementation in the two pilot neighborhoods in Providence, Rhode Island — Casey’s first Evidence2Success community. Read More
KIDS COUNT Network Deepens Strategies for Combating Racial Inequities As more than 150 leaders from child advocacy organizations from across the United States kicked off a recent two-day retreat in Atlanta, social justice activist Rev. William Barber reminded the group that addressing racial inequities in child well-being is a universal imperative. Read More