What Is the Juvenile Justice Applied Leadership Network? Casey's program equips leaders to drive measurable and equitable results for youth at risk of legal system involvement. Learn more. Read More
Casey Helps Students Get Frontline Experience Working in Juvenile Justice Policy and Advocacy This summer, thanks to a program supported by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Florida interned with national juvenile justice policy and advocacy organizations. All five students who completed the program worked on the frontlines — and on the national stage — in the fields of juvenile justice advocacy and reform. Read More
U.S. Chamber Foundation Offers Tools for Employers to Expand Job Access Two publications provide recommendations and tools to help employers, educational institutions and workforce organizations work together to expand job and career opportunities for people who historically have faced barriers to entering professions. Read More
Youth Correctional Leaders Launch Campaign to Close Juvenile Prisons Nearly 50 leaders of juvenile justice agencies across the country have issued a joint call to close the nation’s remaining youth prisons and replace them with more effective interventions. 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
Fifty Years of Transforming Youth Justice A Dec. 6 webinar explored 50 years of youth justice reform under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. Watch now. Read More
Twenty-fifth Edition of KIDS COUNT Data Book Highlights Improvements Since 1990 National and state policy changes have resulted in positive changes for children since the first KIDS COUNT Data Book was released in 1990, but more are living in high-poverty neighborhoods and in single-parent families today, according to the Foundation's 2014 report on child well-being. Read More
More Communities Exploring Restorative Justice for Youth Jurisdictions across the nation are using restorative justice to divert youth who have caused harm. The approach trades court proceedings for community-based responses. Read More
Five Recordings From Youth Justice at a Crossroads The Casey Foundation co-hosted a virtual event focused on improving the well-being of young people in the justice system. Watch the recordings. Read More
New York City Youth to be Shifted out of State-Run Facilities Governor Cuomo's "Close to Home" proposal will send New York City youth who were previously to non-secure or limited-secure care closer to their families in city-based residential and community-based programs. Read More