Working With Casey, Oklahoma Doubles its Number of Licensed Foster Care Beds The Annie E. Casey Foundation teamed up with the state of Oklahoma to improve its foster care system, and the multiyear collaboration is yielding impressive results. Read More
New Recruits Join Network Aimed at Promoting Diversity in Evaluation Sector The Casey Foundation has selected a new group of evaluators and researchers to join its network of evaluation experts from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic minority groups. Read More
Buffalo Promise Neighborhood's Caitlin Lenihan Talks Family-Centered Work Caitlin Lenihan, director of Buffalo Promise Neighborhood's Two-Generation Programs, shares her thoughts on employing a family-centered approach. In this post, she discusses why listening to parents is important, why specific training is necessary and how her organization's family-centered practice has evolved over time. Read More
Minnesota Integrates State Data to Improve Early Childhood Programming Officials in Minnesota have launched the Early Childhood Longitudinal Data System, an innovative information sharing system that integrates the state’s data on education, health and social services. Read More
An Innovative Training Program is Helping Atlantans Get — and Keep — Jobs Researchers at Emory University compared a workforce training program called Atlanta CareerRise to more traditional training approaches. Their review found that Atlanta CareerRise did a better job at helping individuals get hired, stay employed and increase their earnings. Read More
Family First Prevention Services Act Will Change Foster Care The Family First Prevention Services Act will provide flexible federal spending to support kids at risk of entering foster care. Read More
More Than One in Five U.S. Kids Has Had Multiple Adverse Experiences In 2015-2016, 22% of children in the United States — more than 15.6 million kids total — report experiencing two or more adverse experiences. Read More
Expert Input: What It’s Like to Deliver New Training Series on Kinship Care The Annie E. Casey Foundation has released a five-part video training series, called “Engaging Kinship Caregivers” that is designed to help child welfare staff work more effectively with kinship caregivers. Read More
Helping Kids in Foster Care Learn to Manage Their Emotions and Behavior Helping children and young people in foster care learn to manage their thoughts, emotions and energy is a two-part process. This is especially true when foster parents, kin and other caregivers are working with children who have experienced trauma. Read More
Report Explores How Adolescents Leave Foster Care A new Casey-funded study by the Center for State Child Welfare Data examines the reasons that teenagers exit out-of-home care and the variables influencing their path. Read More
