ARC Reflections Facilitator Guide for Session Eight Who Are You? All About Identity This ARC Reflections Training Curriculum walks a facilitator — slide by slide — through each session’s content. Session eight helps facilitators show caregivers ways to support positive identity in children and teens in their homes. Caregivers contribute profoundly to this sense of self, even for children and teens in brief placements. Read More
ARC Reflections Facilitator Guide for Session Nine Endings and Beginnings This ARC Reflections Training Curriculum walks a facilitator — slide by slide — through each session’s content. Session nine emphasizes that not all endings are the same, transitions can be challenging for children and teens in foster care and foster parents can support a positive transition in a number of ways. Read More
ARC Reflections Survey and Feedback Materials ARC Reflections is a series of facilitator guides dedicated to developing foster parents and caregivers understanding of traumatic stress. These survey and feedback materials help evaluate whether participants are gaining knowledge and skills as a result of the training and gather information on how to make improvements in training facilitation and logistics. Read More
ARC Reflections Tells Olivia's Story ARC Reflections trains foster parents/caregivers on trauma, emotional regulation and parenting. Olivia's story brings the 9-session training to life. Read More
Implementing ARC Reflections for Foster Parents A Guide for Child Welfare Agencies ARC Reflections trains foster parents/caregivers on trauma, emotional regulation & parenting. This guide helps agencies implement the curriculum. Read More
ARC Reflections Case Manager Guide for Sessions One Through Nine The case manager guide helps agency staff support foster parents as they learn ARC concepts in discussions, action and evaluation. Read More
How Funders Can Help Anchor Institutions Strengthen Local Economies A new Casey-funded report explores the powerful role that funders can play in helping anchor institutions strengthen local communities. 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
Atlanta’s Dunbar Learning Complex: Lessons From a Two-Generation Approach Atlanta’s Dunbar Learning Complex is advancing an ambitious mission: To prepare children for kindergarten and have their health needs met while also helping parents secure family-supporting jobs and financially stability. And a new Annie E. Casey Foundation report — Helping Children and Parents Succeed Together — suggests that the complex is on the right track. Read More
Helping Children and Parents Succeed Together An Update on the Dunbar Learning Complex In 2010, with support from the Casey Foundation and others, the Dunbar Learning Complex opened in southwest Atlanta. Its goal? Help parents and their children succeed together. This report offers an early look at the Dunbar Learning Complex’s work to date. Read More
