Casey Connects: Spring 2012 No Place Like Home This issue of Casey Connects explores the power of relationships and the importance of connecting young people in foster care to permanent families. It highlights the work of Casey’s Child Welfare Strategy Group and Casey Family Services as well as a recent report on adolescent brain development by the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative. Read More
Building Successful Resource Families Practice Guide A Guide for Public Agencies This practice guide provides information on how to recruit, develop and support resource families for child welfare agencies. It outlines best practices and specific tools identified by the Casey Foundation as effective in the field. Read More
D.C.'s Achievement Gap: Why Place Matters D.C. KIDS COUNT Data Snapshot This D.C. KIDS COUNT Data Snapshot examines citywide achievement by the public school kids in Washington, D.C. Read More
How Evaluation Supports Learning A Case Study Describing Resource Media's Use of a Learning Circle This case study explores the use of Learning Circles as a practice that can be effective in sparking discussions about evaluation data and informing organizational improvement and decision making. Read More
Data Snapshot on High-Poverty Communities Children Living in America's High-Poverty Communities This data snapshot highlights newly available national, state and city data in the KIDS COUNT Data Center that shows a 25% increase in the number of children residing in areas of concentrated poverty since 2000. Read More
Lifelong Families Case Practice Standards Manual Training Manual This policy and procedures manual for social workers delineates how Casey incorporated family strengthening and permanency planning into all aspects of its child welfare practice framework – assessments, assignments, planning, placement, decision making, teaming, referrals. Read More
Achieving Permanency Through Guardianship Training The Permanency Continuum Series This training for social workers focuses on finding a permanent family for foster care kids through guardianship. Read More
Lifelong Families Permanency Case Practice Tools This set of practice tools offers guidance through questions, surveys, inventories and examples for helping social workers and supervisors understand and organize the case factors affecting permanency for a foster child. Read More
Achieving Permanency Through Reunification Training The Permanency Continuum Series, Lifelong Families Model This 2-day child welfare training focuses specifically on deepening social worker skills for reuniting kids in foster care with their birth families when that option is in the best interest of the kids. Read More
Bringing Promise to Washington, D.C. The DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative Working with partners ranging from residents to businesses to schools to assistance agencies, this Washington, D.C. collaborative is establishing the groundwork to keep kids healthy and in school from cradle to college. Read More
