Two Leaders Confront a Major Roadblock — Structural Racism — in Their Pursuit of Equity On paper, the two leaders shared a goal: to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system. In reality, their different perspectives coupled with unaddressed pain and anger stemming from structural racism threatened to undermine their work. Read More
Pennsylvania Launches JDAI in Four Counties Pennsylvania is one of the newest states to join JDAI, with sites in Lancaster, Lehigh, Philadelphia, and Allegheny counties agreeing to implement detention reform. Read More
Applying a Results Framework to Social Program Evaluation in San Antonio Researchers at the University of Texas San Antonio are using their work with the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Expanding the Bench in Performance Management Initiative to apply results-based methods to evaluating a variety of efforts in San Antonio. Read More
Five Questions with Casey: Bart Lubow and Reducing Reliance on Youth Detention Bart Lubow, director of Casey’s Juvenile Justice Strategy Group, talks about reducing the reliance on secure detention for youth. Read More
Improving Juvenile Probation to Support Girls in New Mexico Motivated by data, the probation department in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, is embracing a fundamental culture change – looking to girls and young women as well as deeply rooted community organizations as the best sources for information about what they need. Read More
Focusing on the Factors that Help Kids Succeed Casey President and Chief Executive Officer Patrick McCarthy outlines the Foundation's focus on the factors with the greatest influence on a child's chances to succeed: family, community and opportunity. Read More
What a Difference a Decade Makes: Youth Detention Population Drops 44% Since 2003, the number of youth residing in juvenile detention, correctional and residential facilities has dropped by 44%. Even though that number includes all racial and ethnic groups, black kids are still overrepresented in the system. Read More
Seeking Grant Applications for Summer Youth Programs in Baltimore Baltimore-area funders are again joining to offer grant funding to nonprofits to provide high-quality educational and recreational programs for city youth in summer 2020. The application deadline is 5 p.m. on Nov. 22, 2019. Read More
KIDS COUNT Network Deepens Strategies for Combating Racial Inequities As more than 150 leaders from child advocacy organizations from across the United States kicked off a recent two-day retreat in Atlanta, social justice activist Rev. William Barber reminded the group that addressing racial inequities in child well-being is a universal imperative. Read More
Incarceration’s Toll on Communities Casey’s new KIDS COUNT report on parental incarceration, A Shared Sentence, highlights that children and families aren’t the only ones to experience stress and instability when a parent is behind bars — their communities also feel the blow. Read More