Connecting Youth Through Multiple Pathways This slide deck is a field scan of what selected school districts, foundations and nonprofit organizations are doing to prepare at-risk youth for further education, careers and life. Read More
Advancing the Mission: Tools for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion This toolkit condenses 15 years of the Casey Foundation’s employee work “hard-wiring” racial equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) into the organizational culture. Read More
Improving Medicaid Managed Care for Youth with Serious Behavioral Health Needs A Quality Improvement Toolkit This tool kit shares the experiences of nine Medicaid managed care organizations which collaborated over a two-year period to identify better ways to care for youth with serious behavioral health needs. Its pages tell of quality-improvement strategies, challenges, lessons learned and care innovations worthy of a closer look. Read More
Children in Immigrant Families State by State Fact Sheets This report is a series of 50 state-specific papers providing information about the status of immigrant families in each state. Read More
What Works? A Study of Effective Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Programs This study provides data-driven guidance for developing and implementing early childhood mental health consultation (ECMHC) programs for the increasing number of very young children manifesting behavior problems. Read More
Building Family Economic Success: Foreclosure This fact sheet—with a razor-sharp focus on foreclosures—tells how the Annie E. Casey Foundation is funding important initiatives to ease the hemorrhaging of the housing crisis at the family and community level. It is part of a 10-part series devoted to sharing ways that the Foundation is helping to economically empower families across America. Read More
A Guide to Housing Related Opportunities for Making Connections Communities American Recovery and Reinvestment Act This guide outlines how Making Connections communities can structure inquiries to access the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding for housing. Read More
Rural Children Are More Likely to Live in Cohabiting Couple Households This policy brief presents findings about the proportion of children living in cohabiting households, as well as the characteristics of those households, based on an analysis of Census data (1995 to 2006). Read More
Center for Working Families Cost Profile: MET Center From Insight to Impact - Worldwide This report uses two years of financial information from the MET Center in St. Louis to answer basic financial questions for organizations wanting to incorporate one type of Center for Working Families approach into their programs. Read More
Metropolitan Conditions and Trends Changing Contexts for a Community Initiative This report reviews recent trends for social and economic conditions in the 10 metropolitan areas surrounding the Casey Foundation's Making Connections initiative cities, giving context for the neighborhood programs being implemented. Read More