Foster Home Estimator: Helping Child Welfare Agencies Plan for Family Recruitment A new tool, the Foster Home Estimator, can help agencies build a more robust pool of foster parents by more accurately estimating how many additional foster homes are needed, especially for specific populations of children, such as teens or large sibling groups. Read More
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
Immigrant Youth in the Youth Justice System: What You Need to Know in 2018 Recent shifts in U.S. policy have placed noncitizen youth who are involved in the juvenile justice system at increased risk of arrest, detention and deportation. To help juvenile justice professionals navigate this evolving landscape, the Annie E. Casey Foundation has published an update to its 2014 practice guide Noncitizen Youth in the Juvenile Justice System. Read More
Minnesota Integrates State Data to Improve Early Childhood Programming Officials in Minnesota have launched the Early Childhood Longitudinal Data System, an innovative information sharing system that integrates the state’s data on education, health and social services. Read More
The Benefits of Virtually Mentoring Youth Researchers explore the impact of mentoring youth remotely during the pandemic. Learn the pros, cons and challenges of these remote models. Read More
Team Decision Making Headed to the National Council on Crime and Delinquency Team Decision Making, a child-safety planning approach by the Casey Foundation, moves to the National Council on Crime & Delinquency in 2020. Read More
Latest JDAI Results: Significant Reductions in Juvenile Incarceration and Crime JDAI cut juvenile incarceration by 50% and now focuses on supporting youth success and well-being beyond confinement. Learn more. Read More
What Is the JDAI Network? Learn more about JDAI, a national network of professionals working to build better and more equitable local youth justice systems. Read More
Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer on the Role of American Cities in Building a Better Future Lisa Hamilton and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer talk about America’s cities, challenges, driving change and helping kids and families. Read More
Select Adoption Statistics for Kids in Foster Care In 2015, 112,000 kids in foster care awaited adoption; 53,000 were adopted. KIDS COUNT shares data on both groups. Read More
