Promoting Economic Inclusion in Atlanta With Business and Civic Leaders The Partnership for Southern Equity, with support from Casey, recently launched the JUST Opportunity Circle, a public-private collaborative working to promote greater economic inclusion in Atlanta. Read More
The Growing Role of Public Assistance in Childhood From 2005 to 2017, 46 states saw an uptick in the share of kids whose families received public assistance. Learn which states were outliers. Read More
Mississippi Juvenile Justice Officials Travel to Cook County for Model-Site Visit A Mississippi delegation got a first-hand look at Cook County, Illinois' successes in detention reform. Read More
The Center for Working Families Launches Green Works Program The Center for Working Families, Inc. reports on the early progress of its Green Works program, an Atlanta effort to provide job seekers with marketable skills in environmental remediation and green industrial jobs. Read More
Revisions to JDAI Facility Assessment Standards on the Way The U.S. Department of Justice has issued the final Prison Rape Elimination Act standards, outlining the steps juvenile and adult facilities must take to address sexual misconduct prevention, detection and response. Read More
Federal Demonstration Seeks to Curb Homelessness Among Youth Transitioning from Foster Care Under a new U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program, many young people transitioning from foster care could receive help with housing. The federal effort is designed to address the troubling trend of homelessness among this population. Read More
American Indian and African American Kids More Likely to Experience Multiple Adverse Events This post reports on kids experiencing multiple adverse events and dissects the data by race and ethnicity. Read which kids are most at risk. Read More
Nearly 700,000 More Kids Living in Low-Income Working Families Low-income working families with kids now make up 23% of the American public. This statistic has risen 3% — and 674,000 kids — since 2008. Read More
2010-2011 Children and Family Fellows Announced Eighteen children and family services leaders named to Fellowship for talent, vision in sustaining community initiatives and system reforms. Read More
Casey Vice President Lisa Hamilton Addresses the KIDS COUNT Network Casey's Vice President of External Affairs Lisa Hamilton delivered the opening keynote address at the annual gathering of the KIDS COUNT network in Baltimore in 2011. Read More
