Understanding Risk and Protective Factors for Youth In order to bring the right resources to bear in a community, leaders must fully understand the prevalence of risk and protective factors among young people. The Casey Foundation has compiled a set of measures to help determine the risk and protective factors present in a community. Read More
Foster Care Explained: What It Is, How It Works and How It Can Be Improved Learn about the foster care system — what it is, how it works and how it can be improved — with resources and data from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Read More
What Is Kinship Care? More than 2.7 million children in America live in kinship care — when relatives raise children whose parents no longer can. Explore reports and resources on kinship care. Read More
New Analytical Tool Matches Kids and Providers for Better Results A new tool adapted for use in the child welfare system — Treatment Outcome Package (TOP) — uses an easy-to-use, scientifically validated online questionnaire to measure child well-being across a dozen behavioral domains. Read More
When Child Welfare Works: Reforming Federal Financing to Support Best Practices in Foster Care The Casey Foundation and the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative offer recommendations that would transform federal funding for child welfare systems to support better outcomes for kids and families while maintaining the existing overall funding level. Read More
Low Reading Scores Show Majority of U.S. Children Not Prepared for Future Success A KIDS COUNT data snapshot finds that 80% of lower-income fourth graders and 66% of all kids are not reading proficiently. Reading on grade level by the end of third grade is a key predictor of a student’s future educational and economic success. Read More
Annie E. Casey Foundation Leader in Juvenile Justice Reform to Retire Bart Lubow, director of the Juvenile Justice Strategy Group at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, will retire June 30 after 22 years of leading the Foundation’s work to seek safer and more effective alternatives for young people who get into trouble with the law. Read More
Economic Opportunity in Rural Communities More than 25 percent of kids in rural areas live in poverty, which is a significantly higher rate than in the suburbs. Learn how the Foundation is working to connect rural families to opportunities. Read More
Policy Report Explores Youth and Work A 2012 KIDS COUNT policy report revealed that nearly 6.5 million U.S. teens and young adults are neither in school nor in the workforce, veering toward chronic underemployment as adults and failing to gain the skills employers need in the 21st century. Read More
What Makes Casebook Unique? In most public child welfare agencies, case management systems focus strictly on compliance. Casebook is an alternative that changes child welfare practice by focusing on results for families. Learn how it works. Read More
