Recruitment, Training, and Support: The Essential Tools of Foster Care Family to Family Tools for Rebuilding Foster Care This practice guide explains family-centered foster care and shows how foster families can be recruited, trained, supported and retained to insure the best outcome for the child. Read More
Systems Reform in the Jobs Initiative Lessons from Using the Framework for Labor Market Systems Reform This policy brief looks at the challenges and opportunities of pursuing systems change related to job retention and advancement for low-income workers. Read More
Service Development in the AECF Mental Health Initiative for Urban Children Final Evaluation Report This evaluation of a past Casey demonstration project examines mental health delivery to high poverty inner-city kids. This distinctively different venture hitting governance, service delivery and policies/procedures included many types of kids, focused on prevention, tapped community-based delivery settings and involved parents. Read More
Family to Family: Lessons Learned Tools for Rebuilding Foster Care This report summarizes the lessons learned by the Casey Foundation in its implemetation of a reformed foster care strategy in which child welfare agencies work with families and communities to ensure child placements close to home. Read More
A Path Forward for Camden This report examines the current state of Camden, New Jersey at the time of this report and the story behind its downfall. It also outlines critical next steps for jumpstarting the city’s recovery and must-have components of a potential turnaround plan. Read More
Adult Communication and Teen Sex Changing a Community Between 1993 and 1998, the Annie E. Casey Foundation rolled out a pregnancy prevention initiative called Plain Talk in five low-income urban neighborhoods. This report utilizes survey results to discuss what worked well and what didn’t during the program’s implementation. Read More
Casey Connects: Summer 2001 Initiative Aims to Ease the Pain of Transition From Foster Care This issue of Casey Connects spotlights transitions. It unveils three new Foundation initiatives breaking fresh ground and highlights the racially impactful, Oscar-nominated film Legacy, revealing a family’s transformation in ghetto Chicago after the murder of their shining star son. Read More
Family Circles, Sharing Our Experiences Engaging Residents in Family-Strengthening Efforts This paper describes using study circles to engage residents in three Making Connections initiative neighborhoods. Read More
Members of the 2001 Children and Family Fellowship Ten leaders from across the country have been named to the 2001 class of the Children and Family Fellowship. Read More
Replicating Detention Reform Lessons from the Florida Detention Initiative This report compares two reform initiatives with nearly identical objectives yet drastically different final chapters. Readers will learn how officials successfully reduced local detention center populations and why a similar statewide effort failed just years later. Replicating Detention Reform is the 12th installment in a series devoted to identifying more effective, efficient alternatives to juvenile detention. Read More
