Five Questions with Casey: Mike Laracy and the Policy Landscape for Kids and Families Casey's director of policy reform and advocacy, Michael Laracy, discusses the policy landscape for kids and families in 2013. Read More
Guide to Fidelity Measurement for the Lifelong Families Model This toolkit contains inventories and forms used to measure fidelity when applying the principles of Lifelong Families, a foster care practice model. Read More
Attorney General Eric Holder Energizes KIDS COUNT Conference U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder celebrated the Foundation as “a champion for disadvantaged young people from coast to coast” that has broken barriers, strengthened families and contributed to improvements in juvenile justice, in a stirring Oct. 1 speech during the Foundation’s KIDS COUNT conference in Baltimore. Read More
Casey Funds Efforts to Expand State Tax Refunds for Young Workers Casey awarded $260,000 in grants to six organizations seeking to expand their states’ Earned Income Tax Credit benefits to cover more young workers. Read More
Juan Sanchez Receives Award for Leadership of Southwest Key Juan Sanchez, founder of Southwest Key, won Austin Business Journal’s Best CEO award for his leadership in youth-serving nonprofits. Read more. Read More
KIDS COUNT Checkup: A Look at Low-Birthweight Babies Today in America, about 1 in 13 newborns — 319,000 babies total — is born at a low birthweight. This statistic has fallen by more than 28,000 newborns in the last seven years, according to the KIDS COUNT Data Book. Read More
The Center for Working Families Inc. Helps Return $1.5 Million to the Community The Center for Working Families in Atlanta prepared over 1,000 tax returns this spring, resulting in more than $1.5M in refunds for low-income families. Read More
A New Approach for Aiding Child Welfare Workers Has Surprising Roots: The Boxing Ring The Casey Foundation explores how child welfare workers may benefit from training that helps professionals make strategic decisions in high-stakes jobs. Read More
And the Survey Says: Aspen Institute Examines Efforts to Connect Young Adults to Jobs Nearly 6.7 million young adults are not working or in school, and the young adult unemployment rate hit 12.2% — more than double the national unemployment rate — in June 2015. The consequences of unemployment and underemployment can be long-lasting and include reduced wages, decreased productivity and shortened career ladders. Recognizing the challenges facing America’s youngest workers, the Foundation commissioned the Aspen Institute Workforce Strategies Initiative to examine how organizations are helping adults ages 18 to 29 succeed in today’s labor market. The report gathered feedback from nearly 400 individuals at 340 organizations nationwide. Read More
Six Big City Mayors Lead Juvenile Justice Reform Efforts A new report funded by the Casey Foundation, Lessons Learned: Mayoral Leadership for Juvenile Justice Reform, chronicles the positive influence of mayoral leadership on juvenile justice reform in six U.S. cities. Read More
