Building Family Economic Success: Workforce Development Fact: A growing number of jobs in America do not pay family-sustaining wages. This two-page primer hits the issue’s highlights and tells how the Annie E. Casey Foundation is working to reverse this trend by supporting efforts that connect low-skilled adults to well-paying jobs with career potential. Read More
Lifelong Families and Replication Manual Trainings: Train the Trainers Training Manual This complete 2-day training program prepares future trainers to teach the child welfare Lifelong Families practice model and the Replication Manual training. Read More
Housing as a Platform for Formerly Incarcerated Persons Stable housing may be a short- and long-term solution for helping released prisoners successfully re-enter society, but more research is needed. Read More
Kinship Policy Improvements Toward Child Welfare System Transformation Part Five of Family Ties: Analysis From a State-by-state Survey of Kinship Care Policies States are partnering with kin to strengthen child welfare systems, but more can be done. Discover state practices and opportunities for improvement. Read More
Casey Connects: Summer 2001 Initiative Aims to Ease the Pain of Transition From Foster Care This issue of Casey Connects spotlights transitions. It unveils three new Foundation initiatives breaking fresh ground and highlights the racially impactful, Oscar-nominated film Legacy, revealing a family’s transformation in ghetto Chicago after the murder of their shining star son. Read More
Race Matters: Unequal Opportunity within Criminal Justice This 2006 fact sheet brings awareness to the racial profiling issue in the criminal justice system. Read More
Race Matters: Unequal Opportunities for Rural Family Economic Success Economic impact laws that appeared race-neutral have had significant impact on poor people of color in rural areas. This 2006 fact sheet brings awareness to the rural economic and race issue. Read More
Chafee Plus Ten A Vision for the Next Decade This report, produced on the 10th anniversary of the Chafee Foster Care Independence Act, compiles a decade worth of lessons about helping foster care kids succeed as adults. Read More
Replicating Detention Reform Lessons from the Florida Detention Initiative This report compares two reform initiatives with nearly identical objectives yet drastically different final chapters. Readers will learn how officials successfully reduced local detention center populations and why a similar statewide effort failed just years later. Replicating Detention Reform is the 12th installment in a series devoted to identifying more effective, efficient alternatives to juvenile detention. Read More
Reconnecting Child Development and Child Welfare Evolving Perspectives on Residential Placement This report discusses the recent acknowledgement that kids need a sense of belonging to a family and the consequences when they are taken out of the home for safety concerns. Read More
