Podcast Archive

Advocates Use Results-based Leadership Skills to Improve Policy for Kids

Thirteen states have benefited from policy and advocacy efforts of the latest Leadership Institute for State-Based Advocates class. Among other achievements in helping children and families, the class increased early learning and child-care options, increased free breakfast and lunch for kids and enhanced job prospects for parents.

San Francisco Probation Takes New Approach to Technical Violations

San Francisco’s Juvenile Probation Department offers sessions to help youth on probation understand rules, conditions and the value of good decisions.

Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential: Webinar Presentation and Recordings

The webinar recordings and presentation on Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential, the Foundation's new Social Innovation Fund initiative.

Dec. 6 Webinar: Promoting Research-Practice Partnerships in Child Welfare

On Dec. 6, 2018, the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the William T. Grant Foundation will host a webinar that explores tools and resources for building effective partnerships between researchers and child welfare practitioners.

Second Year of Low-Cost RCT Competition Launched

The Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy has launched the second year of its three-year competition to select and fund promising low-cost randomized controlled trials (RCTs).

52% of Young Americans Are Not College Students or Graduates

Education will play an increasingly important role in the future economy. Ensuring youth have access to higher education and training is more critical than ever. In 2015 — the latest full year in which data is available — only about one in every two youth, ages 18 to 24, was attending college or had already completed college.

Five Questions with Casey: Tracey Feild on the Need to Reform Child Welfare Funding

Tracey Feild, director and manager of the Child Welfare Strategy Group, discusses child welfare funding reform.

We are One Baltimore

Baltimore's Mayor has announced the creation of One Baltimore as a comprehensive public-private initiative to support opportunities for the city’s children, families and neighborhoods. One Baltimore will focus on areas the Casey Foundation knows are critical to the long-term success of this community and its citizens.

Mortality Rates for Children Improved Across the Board

In the past three decades, the United States has made across-the-board progress in improving the rates of mortality among children (from birth to age 19).