Helping Young People in Foster Care Heal From Trauma and Build Resilience Growing up is hard. Growing up in foster care is even harder. A handout from the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, Healing Comes First, leverages what we know about adolescent brain development to help young people in foster care move from trauma to resilience. Read More
June 21 Webinar: Using the Family First Act to Finance Child Welfare Programs On June 21, the Annie E. Casey and William T. Grant foundations are hosting a special webinar devoted to helping child welfare leaders understand how the Family First Prevention Services Act can impact and enhance their work with children and families. Read More
Kids of Color More Likely to Live in High-Poverty Neighborhoods Now Than During Great Recession More African-American, Latino and American Indian children are living in high-poverty neighborhoods despite a fully-restored economy surging to near-record levels. Read More
May 15 Webinar: Preparing Young People for Workplace Success Join the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Child Trends for a May 15 webinar that explores how Generation Work and Positive Youth Development strategies are giving organizations a new way to help young people achieve workplace success. Read More
Brief Offers Policies for Families Separated by Foster Care and Incarceration A new policy brief in The Future of Children examines two Casey Foundation priorities – children in foster care and children of incarcerated parents – and calls for better understanding what harms kids most and to identify strategies that help. Read More
Training for Grassroots Organizations Wanting To Offer Alternatives to Incarceration Community Connections for Youth has worked with 150 organizations to help steer alternatives to incarceration into communities by building the capacity of grassroots organizations. Read More
Helping Savannah Youth Connect to Work, Avoid Confinement The juvenile court in Chatham County, Georgia, home to Savannah, reached out for community investments and partnerships to create innovating programming that helps juveniles reconnect with their community and avoid future incarceration. Read More
JDAIconnect Adds 2,200 Users in First Year Since the Casey Foundation launched JDAIconnect a year ago, more than 2,200 juvenile justice reformers have joined the online community to exchange ideas, find resources and learn. Read More
May 17 Webinar: Integrating Data to Support Families The Annie E. Casey Foundation is hosting a May 17 webinar on the benefits and challenges of building an integrated data system to support a two-generation approach to social service programming. Read More
Report: Deep Disparities Between Baltimore’s Black and White Workers In Baltimore, African-American workers are disconnected from jobs that provide family-sustaining wages and opportunities for advancement, according to a new report from the nonprofit Associated Black Charities. Read More