Child Welfare Professionals Weigh in on ARC Reflections Child welfare professionals and agency leaders have embraced ARC Reflections, a new skill-building curriculum from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Justice Resource Institute that helps foster parents, kin and other caregivers support children who have experienced trauma. Read More
Momentum Builds in States to End the Youth Prison Model America’s longstanding youth prison model — which emphasizes compliance, control and punishment — exacerbates youth trauma and inhibits positive growth while failing to enhance public safety. Not surprisingly, this model is fading across the nation. Read More
Keeping the Family Conversation Alive: Supporting Permanence Among Youth in Foster Care A new handout by the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative shares recommendations for promoting permanence among young people in foster care. This advice utilizes the latest research on adolescent brain development and apply even for young people who may have given up on the idea of legally joining a permanent family. Read More
Improving Foster Care for Young People of Color Social, systemic and structural barriers create disparate and disheartening outcomes for young people of color in foster care. Learn how the Annie E. Casey Foundation and its Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative are pushing for better strategies and fairer outcomes. Read More
Funders Provide $3.3 Million Boost to Summer Programs for Baltimore Youth Eleven charitable organizations, including the Annie E. Casey Foundation, have joined together to provide more than $3.3 million in support for the Baltimore Summer Funding Collaborative. Read More
Campaign Puts Racial Equity in the Center of the Social Sector Diverse leadership makes nonprofits more effective, according to research. Yet, in the nonprofit sector today, just 10% of CEOs and board chairs and 16% of board members are people of color. Leveling this professional playing field involves building organizational cultures in the social sector that place racial equity at the center of internal operations and external programing. Read More
New Interactive Map Tackles Debt in America Today The Urban Institute has launched an interactive map that puts the pervasiveness of America’s modern debt epidemic on full display. Read More
New Funds for Work: Connecting Systems for Justice-Involved Young People A new report, New Funds for Work: Connecting Systems for Justice-Involved Young People, provides a state-by-state look at youth served by workforce development boards that were justice-involved and offers recommendations to improve employment opportunities for these youth. Read More
Nation Shifts Away From Costly, Unnecessary Confinement Since 2007, the rate at which youth are placed in juvenile detention, correctional and residential facilities has steadily declined — falling 44% nationwide. Read More
The Number of Bilingual Kids in America Continues to Rise In 2016, 22% of children in the United States — slightly more than 12 million kids total — spoke a language other than English at home. This rate has risen 2%, by 1.2 million kids, in the last decade. Read More
