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
Leadership Program Helps Health Advocates Connect More Kids and Families to Medicaid Members from the second class of the Children’s Health Leadership Network have completed the 12-month leadership program — and preserved, expanded or improved Medicaid in four states along the way. Read More
Cheryl Washington on Rebuilding East Baltimore and its Future Lisa Hamilton, president and CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, talks with Cheryl Washington, president and CEO of East Baltimore Development Inc., a nonprofit charged with overseeing the transformation of a disinvested neighborhood in Baltimore. Their conversation explores how the community has evolved so far, how residents shaped the project in unexpected ways and what other cities should know about tackling large-scale urban renewal work. Read More
Helping Kids of Equal Talent Grow Into Equally Successful Students and Adults Children who struggle early in school can change course and ultimately succeed as students and adults. Yet, this transformation is less likely to take place when kids miss out on effective interventions — a disadvantage that rings true for many children of color and kids from low-income neighborhoods, according to a new report funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Read More
Seven Sites Selected for Juvenile Probation Certificate Program With Georgetown University In November 2019, teams from seven sites gathered in Washington, D.C. to learn about transforming juvenile probation culture and practice as part of the Transforming Juvenile Probation Certificate Program. Read More
Evaluation Finds Casey Effort to Enhance Child Welfare Investigative Decision Making is on the Right Track On the Frontline aims to help caseworkers and their supervisors make better investigative decisions about protecting children and strengthening families. A new evaluation and report examine the experiences of child welfare agencies in two counties — one in Ohio and the other in Colorado — that began implementing the initiative in 2015. Read More
Team Decision Making: Key Resources for Assessing Child Risk and Safety Team Decision Making, a promising approach that the Annie E. Casey Foundation developed and has tested for more than 20 years, helps child welfare agencies make informed decisions about whether to separate children from their parents. This post explores key Foundation resources on Team Decision Making. Read More
