Get Georgia Reading Campaign Officially Kicks Off Get Georgia Reading — a statewide campaign to get all children on a path to reading on grade level by the end of third grade — officially launched at an August event that included First Lady Sandra Deal, as well as state commissioners, educators, parents, business leaders and children’s authors. Read More
California Considers Final Closure of its State Youth Corrections System California considers final closure of its state youth corrections system, part of the state's juvenile justice reform that started in 2007. Read More
One-Fourth of Kids in Immigrant Families Are Living in Poverty In 2015, one in four children lived in immigrant families in the United States. These children are more likely to live in poverty than their peers from U.S.-born families, according to the KIDS COUNT Data Center. Read More
Meet the 2017 JDAI Distinguished System Leadership Award Winners Three individuals, Toni Carter, Lisa Garry and Kurt Wolf, earned this year’s JDAI Distinguished System Leadership Award, which recognizes stakeholders who have leveraged data and innovative partnerships to realize lasting juvenile justice reforms. The award is the highest honor that the Annie E. Casey Foundation bestows on an individual or team working at a Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative site. Read More
Using Evidence-Based Practices to Help Students Succeed Against the Odds In West Virginia, a mentoring program supported by the Casey Foundation is utilizing evidence-based practices to help high school students from underserved communities earn an advanced degree in a STEM-based field. Read More
A Decade of Data: Kids in High-Poverty Communities Across the country, 14% of children are now living in high-poverty communities, according to the KIDS COUNT Data Center. Read More
Funding to Coordinate Adult and Child Services During a webinar on March 14, the Casey Foundation released a new brief that highlights the strategies several organizations are using to address parent and child needs at the same time, as well as policy recommendations to support the adoption and growth of two-generation approaches. Read More
Community Conferencing Community Conferencing aims to involve the young offender, the victim and their families in the decision-making process with the objective of reaching a group consensus on a "just" outcome. The goals are to achieve reconciliation, restitution and rehabilitation as well as to do case planning when applicable. Read More
Los Angeles Moves to Limit Number of Students Arrested The Los Angeles Unified School District will be implementing a groundbreaking agreement that will limit the number of students arrested or ticketed for misbehavior in L.A. public schools. Read More
Casey Fellow in Focus: Helping Kids Meet Early Milestones in Michigan Kristen McDonald is one of 16 visionary leaders who recently graduated from the Casey Foundation’s Children and Family Fellowship. Her story demonstrates what Fellows can accomplish when they apply the tools and competencies of Results Count — the Foundation’s results-based leadership approach — to achieve measurable results in child well-being. Read More
