Pennsylvania Moves to Find Families for Teens in Foster Care Pennsylvania law recently expands efforts to find supportive families and caregivers for teens in foster care and help young people to thrive. Read more. Read More
Meet Tyeisha: The LEAP Fellow Transforming Rooms for Youth in Foster Care A college student looks back on her time in foster care to help other young people feel at home in their own living spaces. Read More
Accessing JDAIconnect JDAIconnect, the online community for JDAI practitioners and everyone who cares about youth justice, shares log-on instructions for existing and new users. Read More
Juvenile Justice Priorities During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic Casey joins organizations such as the Center for Children’s Law and Policy, a longtime provider of technical assistance to JDAI sites, in promoting four important steps that juvenile justice agencies can take to help to limit the spread of COVID-19. Read More
United Way's Suzanne McCormick on Serving Communities During the Pandemic Suzanne McCormick is the U.S. president of United Way Worldwide. Listen as Casey's Lisa Hamilton chats with McCormick about how the United Way has evolved its programs and priorities to better support communities and families during the pandemic. Read More
New Tool Measures Well-Being of Kids Served by Child Welfare Systems Casey partners with The Duke Endowment to develop and test the Treatment Outcome Package (TOP) assessment tool for child welfare systems. Read More
Measuring Disparities in Child Welfare Systems: Five Lessons For two decades, the Casey Foundation has collaborated with child welfare agencies to improve how they help families keep children safe from abuse and neglect. More recently, these efforts have included developing tools, such as the Relative Rate Index, for measuring and addressing racial disparities. Read More
Survey Identifies Priorities for Child Welfare Research Results of a recent survey from the Urban Institute shine a spotlight on gaps in child welfare research and reveal a need for major systems transformation. The survey, funded in part by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, indicates that respondents see the expansion of prevention services as a top priority for strengthening families. Read More
Strategies for Helping Low-Income Workers in Uncertain Times The Casey Foundation is revisiting a report, Taking Action, released in late 2019, with 12 case studies and recommendations for how lawmakers, employers and education and workforce development professionals can better serve and improve conditions for workers in the face of a rapidly changing economy. Read More
Voices From the Field: Implementing Programs That Advance Equity A new issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, from Stanford Unviersity, includes a 10-article supplement that explores the importance of considering a community’s culture, values, assets and history when implementing social change programs and initiatives. Read More