LEAP Partners Help Youth Build Financial Skills on Path to Success Many young people — especially those who’ve experienced systems of care and homelessness — have missed out on opportunities to earn, spend and save their own money or even receive guidance on financial decisions. Filling this information and experience gap is a key component of Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential initiative. Read More
Casey Seeks New Partners for its Evidence2Success Framework Casey seeks proposals from communities interested in Evidence2Success, a framework helping public system and resident leaders improve child well-being. Read More
Brain Research Points to Better Results for Foster Care Youth A Jim Casey Initiative report confirms adolescence is a key brain development period, offering a learning window similar to early childhood. Learn more. Read More
Two in Five Kids Are Read To Less Than Four Days a Week When it comes to supporting literary development in young kids, the advice to parents is clear: Crack open a book — daily — and read aloud to your child. Yet, from 2015 to 2016, 42% of kids in the nation's 5-and-under age group had family members sitting down and reading to them less than four days a week. Read More
Evidence2Success Profiled in Stanford Social Innovation Review Article on Community Engagement A new article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review makes the case that community engagement is a critical component of effective data-driven, evidence-based social change, and profiles the Foundation’s Evidence2Success framework as an example of how these strategies can come together. Read More
Using an Evidence-Based Approach to Reduce Trauma’s Impact on Children Evidence2Success stakeholders in Providence turn their focus toward wide-spread school-aged trauma as leaders tackle one of the toughest underlying education issues with a proven strategy — Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS). Read More
Journal Highlights Casey’s Work Helping Human Service Professionals of Color Achieve Better Results A special issue of Race and Justice explores Casey’s efforts to help human service professionals of color achieve better results for families. Read More
To Do Better by Kids, Build a Bigger Bench of Loving, Caring, Supportive Adults National Foster Care Month highlights the critical role of foster parents, kinship caregivers, mentors and others. Learn how Casey is doing its part. Read More
Connecticut Is the First State in Nation to Eliminate Youth Prison Model Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy recently announced the closure of the Connecticut Juvenile Training School, the state’s large juvenile corrections facility. Read More
Five Questions with Casey: Allison Gerber on the Value of Apprenticeships Senior Associate Allison Gerber discusses the role of apprenticeships in Casey's strategies for connecting people to jobs. Read More
