Plan-Do-Study-Act Charts a Course for Boosting Graduation Rates Among Youth on Probation In California’s Santa Cruz County, juvenile justice leaders found that young people on probation were not earning high school credits or graduating at the same rates as their general population peers. To learn more about the issue and how to address it, probation officials turned to the Plan-Do-Study-Act method — a keystone of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Results Count™ leadership development approach. Read More
Seven Sites Selected for Juvenile Probation Certificate Program With Georgetown University In November 2019, teams from seven sites gathered in Washington, D.C. to learn about transforming juvenile probation culture and practice as part of the Transforming Juvenile Probation Certificate Program. Read More
Webinar Shows How to Develop a Preventive Child Welfare Practice Model In a recorded webinar, a child welfare leader discusses how to keep elements of a preventive practice model in mind while dealing with the challenges and immediate needs of the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch the webinar now. Read More
New Digital Data Locker May Help People Find Stable Housing A new program in Baltimore allows people dealing with housing insecurity to store digital copies of vital documents — and share them electronically — as they work to secure stable housing. Read More
Webinar Features Experts on Developing a Theory of Change A webinar from the Annie E. Casey Foundation highlights key steps to help social-sector leaders develop a theory of change. Read More
Newspaper Series Highlights Evidence2Success in Kearns, Utah A three-part series by The Salt Lake Tribune explores how community leaders in Utah’s Kearns are implementing the Evidence2Success framework to help children and teens build better relationships, make healthier choices and ward off depression and negative thoughts. Read More
Apply Now: Learn to Advance Racial Equity in Public Data Integration Applications are open for a training and technical assistance program — based at the University of Pennsylvania — to help education, child welfare and other state and local agencies advance racial equity in data integration efforts. Read More
There’s More Skilled Work Than Workers — and That’s a Problem In a new podcast episode, the Casey Foundation’s Lisa Hamilton talks with the National Skills Coalition’s Brooke DeRenzis and Rob Garcia about building and sustaining a skilled labor force build and why this work is so important for America’s children, families and future. Read More
The Percentage of Adults Earning a Bachelor’s Degree is on the Rise Higher educational attainment — earning a bachelor’s degree or above — is becoming more commonplace among Americans between the ages of 25 and 34, according to new data on the KIDS COUNT Data Center. Read More
KIDS COUNT Adds New Dataset on Youth and Young Adults The KIDS COUNT Data Center has expanded its statistical coverage of the well-being of young people ages 14 to 24. See what this data says. Read More
