A Spotlight on Sector Strategies: Connecting Youth With Work This post takes a quick look at two recently launched Annie E. Casey Foundation initiatives — Generation Work™ and Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential — that utilize sector-based workforce strategies. Read More
Casey Grants Support Community-Led Workforce Development in Atlanta The Annie E. Casey Foundation has awarded several nonprofits $350,000 in combined grants to help residents in Southwest Atlanta strengthen their employment skills and find family-sustaining jobs that align with their career goals and interests. Read More
Casey Endorses Extending Foster Care to Age 21 in Youth Today Op-Ed The potential to save society billions of dollars while giving young people in foster care what they need to thrive makes it imperative that more states consider extending foster care to age 21. This is the case that Leslie Gross, director of the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, makes in a new op-ed. Read More
Team Decision Making Headed to the National Council on Crime and Delinquency In January 2020, Team Decision Making — a collaborative approach to child-safety planning that the Annie E. Casey Foundation developed and began testing nearly 30 years ago — will move to the National Council on Crime & Delinquency’s Children’s Research Center. Read More
Two-Minute Reviews: Videos Recap 2019 Data Book Findings The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2019 KIDS COUNT Data Book is here! With it comes two new videos that break down key data-driven topics. Learn more here. Read More
U.S. Child Population Grows and Changes: 74 Million Kids to Shape Future of More Diverse America In the 30th edition of the KIDS COUNT Data Book, the Casey Foundation urges policymakers and child advocates to prioritize policies that would expand opportunity for America’s 74 million children. Learn more about this report on child well-being. Read More
New Directory Aims to Keep Families Together During Recovery Families impacted by substance use and abuse now have a new resource — the Family-Based Residential Treatment Directory — to turn to for support. Read More
Casey Strengthens Infrastructure for Advancing Racial Equity Many organizations are looking to design an infrastructure that integrates a focus on racial equity at every turn — and the Annie E. Casey Foundation is no exception. Learn how the National Equity Project has helped create organizational change. Read More
Adding a Precision Approach to Culturally Informed Home Visiting With support from the Casey Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health has developed a web-based support platform designed to help an evidence-based maternal home-visiting program more quickly and precisely identify what young Native American mothers need. Read More
New Tool Kit Helps Child Welfare Leaders Utilize Data to Support Expectant and Parenting Youth The Annie E. Casey Foundation, with help from the Center for the Study of Social Policy and more than 20 national experts, has created a tool kit to help systems leaders improve their data collection so that they can build better policies and practices for expectant and young parents in foster care. Read More