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
Next Shift Beyond the Nonprofit Leadership Crisis In this monograph, the authors counter a variety of proposed interventions from infrastructure organizations and present an alternate to the current crisis framework. The authors posit that by applying a crisis framework to the transitional trends in the non-profit sector, leadership ignores the rich opportunities that lay ahead. Read More
Safety First: Dealing with the Daily Challenges of Child Welfare Part One, Building Support for Child Welfare’s Frontline Workers This manual discusses tools, skills, issues and dilemmas related to safety for child welfare professionals who work with families in their homes and neighborhoods. Read More
A Model for Public and Private Child Welfare Partnership Collaboration for Change, Part One This report provides detailed information about how child welfare organizations can plan and implement partnerships between public and private agencies. Read More
Evaluation of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s On the Frontline Initiative On the Frontline, an initiative of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, aims to help caseworkers and their supervisors make better investigative decisions about protecting children and strengthening families. This evaluation examines the experiences of child welfare agencies in two counties — one in Ohio and the other in Colorado — that began implementing the initiative in 2015. Read More
Evaluating Comprehensive Community Change Report of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 1997 Research and Evaluation Conference The document provides a summary of a two-day meeting where researchers, evaluators and other key stakeholders discussed evaluating comprehensive community initiatives. Challenges, best practices and examples from experts are highlighted. Read More
Wanted! A Narrative for Investing in Workforce Development As part of The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s two-year Workforce Narrative project, this report provides a framework for investing in workforce development policies and programs. Read More
Big Ideas for Job Creation A Policy Brief Highlighting Job Creating Initiatives This report summarizes the work of Big Ideas for Job Creation, a project of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California, Berkeley, which tapped into the innovative thinking of leading experts across the nation to develop job creation proposals. Read More
A Framework For Learning And Results In Community Change Initiatives Imagine. Act. Believe This report outlines a learning while doing approach implemented by the Casey Foundation during Making Connections to evaluating community change work that is based on the premise that those who are most affected by change must lead the work. Read More
Strengthening Policies to Support Children, Youth and Families Who Experience Trauma Unclaimed Children Revisited: Working Paper No. 2 This working paper shares evidence-based practices and key policy recommendations aimed at building a true, trauma-informed system of care. It offers compelling data on trauma and spotlights successful trauma-sensitive programs in action. It also outlines critical service gaps in current efforts to support kids and families exposed to trauma. Read More
