Child Welfare Program Leverages Parent Advocates to Help Reunite Families The Annie E. Casey Foundation partners with NYC’s Administration for Children’s Services to launch a pilot program that pairs parents navigating the foster care system with parent advocates who know what it’s like. Read More
New Legislation Supports Child Care in Maryland Parents and child care providers in Maryland can expect expanded assistance thanks to recent legislation. The package provides for easier access to child care and financial relief for parents. Read More
Survey: More Youth in Secure Detention Despite Rise of COVID-19 Disparities in the detained population are getting worse because Black and Latino youth are staying in detention longer than they were before the pandemic and longer than white youth. Learn more from a recent survey from the Casey Foundation. Read More
Foster Home Estimator: Helping Child Welfare Agencies Plan for Family Recruitment A new tool, the Foster Home Estimator, can help agencies build a more robust pool of foster parents by more accurately estimating how many additional foster homes are needed, especially for specific populations of children, such as teens or large sibling groups. Read More
Immigrant Youth in the Youth Justice System: What You Need to Know in 2018 Recent shifts in U.S. policy have placed noncitizen youth who are involved in the juvenile justice system at increased risk of arrest, detention and deportation. To help juvenile justice professionals navigate this evolving landscape, the Annie E. Casey Foundation has published an update to its 2014 practice guide Noncitizen Youth in the Juvenile Justice System. Read More
Webinar Explores Casey’s Strategic Coinvestor Approach to Community Change When the Annie E. Casey Foundation joined local partnerships in three communities, it did so with a new approach called strategic coinvesting. Watch a webinar that explores this approach. Read More
Youth Probation Experiences and Solutions A free webinar leverages first-hand experiences to explore what is and isn’t working in youth probation. Learn about the webinar. Read More
Building Strong Local Partnerships: 5 Lessons From Family-Centered Community Change New research from the Urban Institute examines the pivotal role of partnerships in the Casey Foundation’s Family-Centered Community Change effort. The study focuses on three communities that embraced a two-generation approach to help caregivers and children succeed together. Read More
Team Decision Making Headed to the National Council on Crime and Delinquency In January 2020, Team Decision Making — a collaborative approach to child-safety planning that the Annie E. Casey Foundation developed and began testing nearly 30 years ago — will move to the National Council on Crime & Delinquency’s Children’s Research Center. Read More
The Family First Act: What Juvenile Justice Advocates Need to Know Webinar highlights how juvenile justice advocates can use the Family First Act in their work for youth and families. Watch the webinar. Read More
