Casey Joins Effort to Help Millions of Americans Achieve Housing Stability The Annie E. Casey Foundation has joined Funders for Housing and Opportunity — a collaborative of nine private foundations that is working to improve lives by ensuring that families can afford safe, stable rentals in healthy communities. Read More
Casey Advances Social Investments in Philanthropy Learn how the Casey Foundation became involved in social investing and how it is using the practice to strengthen philanthropic results. Read More
Children’s Bureau Advises Agencies to Provide Supportive Care for LGBTQ Youth The U.S. Children’s Bureau advises agencies to ensure that their services and programs for LGBTQ youth are “gender-affirming, caring and supportive.” Read More
Rethinking Assessment Tools to Better Support Teens in Foster Care Jim Casey Young Fellow Kai Cotton advocates for updating assessment tools to better support older youth in foster care. Read More
Children in Foster Care Increasingly Likely to Live in Families The Annie E. Casey Foundation today released “Keeping Kids in Families: Trends in U.S. Foster Care Placement,” using data from child welfare systems across all 50 states and the District of Columbia over a 10-year period to look at how placements for young people in foster care have changed. Read More
Updated Data Tool for Child Welfare Changemakers A revamped digital tool is making state-level child welfare data easier to sort and study. Learn more and use the tool. Read More
Select Adoption Statistics for Kids in Foster Care In 2015, nearly 112,000 kids in foster care were waiting to be adopted — and another 53,500 kids in care were adopted into a family. The KIDS COUNT Data Center shares select statistics on both groups. Read More
Dreama Gentry: Empowering Rural Communities through Education A recent evaluation of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Children and Family Fellowship included case studies of individual Fellows who are working to transform the way organizations work on behalf of kids and families. Fellow Dreama Gentry is training her focus on kindergarten readiness in rural communities. Read More
Family-Engaged Case Planning in Youth Probation A new Casey Foundation webinar introduces juvenile justice agencies and their partners to family-engaged case planning in youth probation. Read More
Linguistic Isolation Still a Challenge for Some Kids in Immigrant Families In America today, 90% of the 18 million children living in immigrant families were born in the United States. Fourteen percent of all kids in immigrant families have a hard time speaking English, 21% live in linguistically isolated households, and 54% live with parents who have difficulty speaking English. Read More
