A Guide to Support the Implementation of Foster Care Beyond 18 Questions and Answers, Summary of Federal Fostering Connections Guidance and Perspectives from the Field This guide arms policy and program leaders with clear answers, advice and resources on implementing extended foster care in their state. It is a product of Success Beyond 18, a national campaign by the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative aimed at forging a better path for young people who are transitioning from foster care to adulthood. Read More
Engaging Parents and Families In Adolescent Reproductive Health A Casey Study Review This publication spotlights a wide range of real-world programs that enlist parents in supporting adolescent reproductive health. Readers will get a close look at 4 of these efforts with an end goal of building better programs to help parents raise sexually healthy teens. Read More
Helping Children and Parents Succeed Together An Update on the Dunbar Learning Complex In 2010, with support from the Casey Foundation and others, the Dunbar Learning Complex opened in southwest Atlanta. Its goal? Help parents and their children succeed together. This report offers an early look at the Dunbar Learning Complex’s work to date. Read More
Lifelong Families Adoption Case Study Wanda A set of case studies illustrate how Lifelong Families – a practice model developed and tested by the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s direct service agency – helped advance permanency outcomes for older youth in treatment foster care. This case study highlights how Wanda achieved permanence through adoption. Read More
Expanding Economic Opportunity Lessons from the East Baltimore Revitalization Initiative In this report the reader gets an overview of how the East Baltimore Revitalization Initiative created jobs and contracting work for low-income people of color, women and local Baltimore businesses during a huge community redevelopment project. The report includes lessons learned about incorporating the strategies of economic inclusion into community development, which places the East Baltimore initiative’s efforts within a national context. Read More
Walking the Plain Talk Protecting Sexually Active Teens in Atlanta, New Orleans and San Diego Plain Talk is a teen pregnancy prevention program targeting low-income communities that the Case Foundation incubated. Read More
Money Pals, Part Two Being Cool with Cash This workbook is designed to teach foster children, ages 8 to 11, practical skills about shopping, such as keeping a spending diary, being a smart shopper and understanding advertising. Read More
The Re-Emergence of Concentrated Poverty Metropolitan Trends in the 2000s An analysis of data on neighborhood poverty suggests that the strong economy of the late 1990s did not permanently resolve the challenge of concentrated poverty. The slower economic growth of the 2000s, followed by the worst downturn in decades, led to increases in neighborhoods of extreme poverty once again. Read More
Taking the Initiative on Jobs and Race Innovations in Workforce Development for Minority Job Seekers and Employers This Jobs Initiative report explores racial discrimination against low-skilled workers in regional labor markets – and what can be done about it. Read More
Planning for Juvenile Detention Reforms A Structured Approach This planning approach is designed to help jurisdictions gain an accurate understanding of their own detention policies, practices and problems. Its structured planning model has been tested and refined at various sites over a five-year period, and it makes reference to a variety of solutions to juvenile detention problems. Read More
