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
A Call to Action: Safeguarding New York's Children of Incarcerated Parents A Report of the New York Initiative for Children of Incarcerated Parents This report draws attention to the needs of children whose parents are in the criminal justice system, and describes how good support systems can minimize these children's trauma and harm, and, instead, support their resiliency and success. 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
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
Race Matters: Unequal Opportunities for Income Security This brief shows the racial barriers to minorities having income security and presents policy strategies to conquer embedded racial discrimination. Read More
Guiding Sustainable Community Change An Introduction to Coaching This guide provides an overview to the concept and the practice of coaching for community change endeavors. It explicitly highlights how coaching differs from other community change efforts as well as discusses the ways in which coaching can add value to ongoing community change efforts. 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
Casey Connects: Winter 2005 Applying Casey Lessons to Rural Poverty This issue of Casey Connects highlights the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s commitment to helping rural families achieve economic success. Read More
Evaluation of Systems Reform in the AECF Mental Health Initiative for Urban Children Final Evaluation Report This is a comprehensive evaluation of the institutional change efforts presented during the Casey Foundation’s five-year, community-wide project to improve mental health services in very poor inner-city neighborhoods while decreasing public monies spent on social services. Read More
Parental Incarceration and Child Wellbeing in Fragile Families This brief summarizes family economic, family stability and child development outcomes based on a multi-year national study of fragile families. Read More
