Boston Professor Receives Bimel Award for Helping Drive Detention Reforms The Annie E. Casey Foundation has named William Rodriguez, assistant professor and chair of juvenile justice and youth advocacy at Wheelock College in Boston, as its 2017 Natalie S. Bimel Award recipient. The Foundation presented Rodriguez with the award in recognition of his commitment to fairness and equality, human rights and social justice. Read More
Casey Endorses Extending Foster Care to Age 21 in Youth Today Op-Ed The potential to save society billions of dollars while giving young people in foster care what they need to thrive makes it imperative that more states consider extending foster care to age 21. This is the case that Leslie Gross, director of the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, makes in a new op-ed. Read More
Watch: Nate Balis on the Strength of the JDAI Network A new video recording reports on the state of JDAI®, the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s movement for juvenile justice reform. The session captures the address that Nate Balis, director of the Foundation’s Juvenile Justice Strategy Group, delivered to 800 justice practitioners and decision makers at the 2019 JDAI Inter-Site Conference in Seattle. Read More
In Charlotte, Improving Economic Mobility Through Technology When Keith Clithero launched his Gig Connected web platform in 2018, he had an ambitious goal in mind: improve economic mobility in Charlotte, North Carolina. Read More
Expanding the Bench Makes a Move The Annie E. Casey Foundation has tapped Change Matrix to take the helm of two Expanding the Bench efforts aimed at increasing diversity in research and evaluation. Read More
Juvenile Justice Summit Considers Future of Youth Justice The Annie E. Casey Foundation recently took part in a juvenile justice summit ar the Washington Post. Experts in the field to discussed how federal and state efforts can improve the justice system for youth. Read More
Casebook: A 21st-Century Tool for Family-Centered Practice Case Commons, a Foundation grantee, has developed a transformative child welfare case management technology system. A new video explores the ways technology can help reform child welfare systems and practices. Read More
More Than a Million Older Teens Aren’t Working or In School Teens who leave school and do not enter the workforce are more likely to face a rougher road en route to adulthood, according to research. 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
Connecting Sex Trafficking Survivors to Education and Jobs in Atlanta Survivors of sex trafficking face numerous barriers to education and employment. In Atlanta, a Casey grantee is providing services to help them. Learn how. Read More