Insights From a Pandemic Reflections from the On Track to Career Success Project On Track to Career Success puts students on a path to academic and workplace success. Read about the initiative. Read More
Casey Connects: Fall 2003 Helping Immigrant and Refugee Families Not Just Survive, But Thrive This issue of Casey Connects highlights why immigrants are so important to America’s economy and how the Foundation is working to boost community engagement among these families. Smaller stories spotlight a roundup of Casey-recommended resources, the expanding influence of National Family Week, and the ramifications of pending legislation on private foundations and their grant recipients. Read More
Rebuild the Nation’s Child Welfare System The Annie E. Casey Foundation Issue Brief Casey’s Congressional call-to-action for rebuilding the child welfare system recommends changes that can promote proven practices in creating permanent family alignments. Read More
Reducing Unnecessary Delay Innovations in Case Processing This report tells how sites eliminated delays in case processing procedures to move juveniles into — and out of —detention more quickly. It shares lessons learned from Casey's Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative. Read More
Comparing Outcomes Reported by Young People: Data Brief #4 At Age 17 and 19 in NYTD, Cohort 1 This brief presents research findings from National Youth in Transition Database surveys comparing youth at age 17 and at age 19. It includes key comparisons by gender and foster care status. Read More
ARC Reflections Facilitator Guide for Session Two Behavior Makes Sense The ARC Reflections Training Curriculum walks a facilitator — slide by slide — through each session’s content. Session Two focuses on the three-part sequence for understanding trauma-related behavior: 1) the lens the child or teen is using to understand the world, 2) the need the child or teen is trying to meet with his or her behavior and 3) the child or teen’s ability to recover. Read More
Innovative Philanthropic Financing for Community Change This report provides a concise summary of the East Baltimore Revitalization Initiative, with a focus on how the Annie E. Casey Foundation used innovative financing techniques to support the project. Read More
Family to Family: Lessons Learned Tools for Rebuilding Foster Care This report summarizes the lessons learned by the Casey Foundation in its implemetation of a reformed foster care strategy in which child welfare agencies work with families and communities to ensure child placements close to home. Read More
Investing in Workforce Development: Defining the Business Interest Developed as part of the Workforce Narrative Project, this report explores the business community's unique interest in workforce development. Read More
Casey Connects: Summer 2008 Shining a Light on Poverty — and Efforts to Combat It This issue of Casey Connects highlights the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s big picture efforts to reduce poverty in America. In addition, readers will learn about Casey-supported initiatives aimed at curbing poverty in Connecticut, Maryland and Rhode Island. A smaller story outlines 2008 KIDS COUNT Data Book findings and recommendations related to juvenile justice reform. Read More