Podcast Connects Foster Youth to Listeners and Authentic Opportunities to Drive Change Discover FosterStrong, a podcast empowering current and former foster youth to share their stories of trauma to triumph as a means of reclaiming their narratives. Read More
Study Examines Child Welfare Experiences That Begin With Group Care This post focuses on kids entering group settings for their first child welfare placement. It covers a study that explores how likely this placement is, how long and stable it is, and how often it results in achieving permanence or a return to out-of-home care. Read More
What Are Community Schools? Community schools, which take a holistic approach to supporting young people and their families, are often better equipped to tackle barriers faced by traditional schools, such as a lack of resources and chronic absenteeism. Read More
New Digital Data Locker May Help People Find Stable Housing A new program in Baltimore allows people dealing with housing insecurity to store digital copies of vital documents — and share them electronically — as they work to secure stable housing. Read More
LEAP Fellows Continue Focus on Youth Engagement and Leadership Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential initiative named its second cohort of fellows, who will use their community service and peer engagement experience to build leadership opportunities for young people. Read More
Atlanta’s Pittsburgh Yards Opens With Community Celebration The community celebrated the official opening of Pittsburgh Yards, a commercial development in Southwest Atlanta focused on entrepreneurship. Read More
With Pandemic Relief Set to Expire, Casey Foundation Urges Permanent Foster Care Reforms With a national moratorium on youth aging out of foster care set to expire on Sept. 30, 2021, a new policy brief calls on policymakers to help young people thrive as they move into adulthood. Read More
Child Poverty Rates Remained High in 2023: At Least 10 Million Kids in Poverty Child poverty rates, as measured by the Supplemental Poverty Measure, remained high in 2023, reversing previous years of progress. Read More
Using Storytelling to Help More Baltimoreans Get Jobs In Baltimore City, the storytelling campaign, Work.Better.Together, aims to create a more equitable workforce system — one that affords all residents the dignity of work and hope for the future. Read More
Good News for Youth: At Least 9 in 10 Have Supportive Adults in Their Lives From 2018-2019, most U.S. youth reported having a supportive adult in their lives. Read why community engagement and mentors matter. Read More
