As Schools Go Remote, Pivot to Prevention Adds Telehealth Tools Pivot to Prevention program, backed by the Casey Foundation, expands telehealth tools to support students’ mental and behavioral health. Learn more. 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
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
Who’s in Head Start? Three- and Four-Year-Olds Fill Programs Nationwide In 2016, the most recent full year of data on record, 1.1 million kids were enrolled in Head Start programs. Most of these children — nearly 76% — were three or four years old. Read More
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
Former Casey Youth Council Member Appointed to Virginia’s Juvenile Justice Board Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has appointed a former Annie E. Casey Foundation youth partnership consultant, Quwanisha Hines Roman, to the state’s nine-member Board of Juvenile Justice. Read More
Photographer Richard Ross and Capturing the Experience of Juvenile Confinement Richard Ross, a professional photographer based in Santa Barbara, CA, has received many grants from funders to continue capturing the plight of juveniles. Read More
Webinar to Examine Strategies for Promoting Equity With the Family First Act The Casey and Grant foundations will host a webinar in April 2019 to explore how child welfare leaders can use the Family First Act to achieve equity. Read More
A Conversation with Michael Rohan An interview with Michael J. Rohan, the director of Probation and Court Services of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, Read More
Team Decision Making Added to National Clearinghouse of Evidence-Based Approaches Team Decision Making (TDM), a collaborative child safety approach, is now in California’s Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for proven welfare practices. Read More
