ARC Reflections Facilitator Guide for Session Eight Who Are You? All About Identity This ARC Reflections Training Curriculum walks a facilitator — slide by slide — through each session’s content. Session eight helps facilitators show caregivers ways to support positive identity in children and teens in their homes. Caregivers contribute profoundly to this sense of self, even for children and teens in brief placements. Read More
AdvoCasey: Spring 2004 Who’s Taking Care: AdvoCasey Examines the Staffing Crisis in Children and Family Services This issue of AdvoCasey examines the pervasive neglect of human services workers in America. It’s centerpiece — a feature rooted in Greenville, South Carolina — goes beyond the statistics to share real stories about how these workers are struggling and what this means for the kids and families they serve. AdvoCasey is a seasonal publication; each themed issue spotlights programs and policies that have made measurable differences in the lives of kids and families. Read More
Copy That Guidelines for Replicating Programs to Prevent Teen Pregnancy This report draws on the replication experiences of three programs: Plain Talk, the Teen Outreach Program and the Children's Aid Society-Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program. It provides a brief overview of the primary issues involved in replicating a program to prevent teen pregnancy. 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
ARC Reflections Tells Olivia's Story ARC Reflections is a training curriculum to develop foster parents and caregivers’ understanding of traumatic stress, increase their own emotional regulation and provide tools to support their parenting skills. Olivia’s Story connects the training's nine sessions to the experiences of a youth in foster care. Read More
Strategic Communications Media Relations for Child Welfare This guide provides practical advice and tools for developing a strategic communications program to garner media coverage and support for the Family to Family initiative. Read More
Local Voices On-the-Ground Perspectives on Driving Community Change in the Making Connections Sites This report describes, from the perspective of local stakeholders, the experience of several sites involved in Making Connections in developing and enhancing their capacities to pursue community change. Read More
Building Family Economic Success: Financial Planning and Education This fact sheet spotlights the damaging financial education and counseling gap pervading disadvantaged communities across America. It shares ways that the Annie E. Casey Foundation is working to fill this void. Read More
A Road to Results: Results-Based Accountability in the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Education Program This report details the Casey Foundation’s four-year effort to develop a “results-based accountability” (RBA) approach as part of its K-12 education portfolio. Read More
Borrowing to Make Ends Meet: The Growth of Credit Card Debt in the '90s This study is the first report in a series examining the relationship between credit card debt and economic security in the United States. Read More