Meet the 2019 JDAI Distinguished System Leadership Award Winners Leaders from New Jersey, Washington, D.C. and Santa Cruz, California have earned the Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2019 JDAI® Distinguished System Leadership Award, which honors a youth justice system leader who has achieved lasting juvenile justice reform in a JDAI site. Read More
Promoting Jobs and Equity Through Sector Partnerships When it comes to enhancing workforce diversity, businesses don’t need to go it alone, according to a new study funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Read More
Leadership Program Supports the Philanthropic Sector The Casey Foundation’s Results Count™ usually bring together leaders in government and nonprofit organizations to move deliberately toward greater impact and better results. Now the Foundation is offering the opportunity to a small group of funders who are building their capacity to use the Results Count methods themselves. Read More
Patricia Duh: Lifting Up Youth Voice in Foster Care A Jim Casey Young Fellow, Patricia Duh partners with the Casey Foundation to help advance child welfare policies and practices that effectively meet the needs of young people transitioning from foster care to adulthood. Read her responses to a series of questions. Read More
An Affordable Housing Program in Atlanta is Changing Lives The Andrew P. Stewart Center is connecting families to affordable housing in southwest Atlanta. Read about the Center's work. Read More
New Infographic Offers a Glimpse at Casey’s 2017 Accomplishments A new infographic offers a glimpse into some of these accomplishments from the Foundation’s 2017 investments. 2017 Making a Difference offers selected data points under the Foundation’s four strategy areas: family, opportunity, community and strategies for scale. Read More
Casey Helps Students Get Frontline Experience Working in Juvenile Justice Policy and Advocacy This summer, thanks to a program supported by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Florida interned with national juvenile justice policy and advocacy organizations. All five students who completed the program worked on the frontlines — and on the national stage — in the fields of juvenile justice advocacy and reform. Read More
Helping Kids of Equal Talent Grow Into Equally Successful Students and Adults Children who struggle early in school can change course and ultimately succeed as students and adults. Yet, this transformation is less likely to take place when kids miss out on effective interventions — a disadvantage that rings true for many children of color and kids from low-income neighborhoods, according to a new report funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Read More
Juvenile Justice System Focuses on Strengths of Youth and Families in Massachusetts A new training curriculum being piloted in Massachusetts focuses on creating strong connections between frontline staff and youth in the juvenile justice system. The objective is to transform the efforts of staff in the system, who make important decisions that directly affect youth and have an opportunity to build on young people’s strengths to improve outcomes. Read More
New LEAP Fellows Promote Leadership and Community Service The Casey Foundation selected its third cohort of young-adult Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential fellows. Read More
