Case Planning for Healthy Development This issue brief shares a framework for front line workers to use in case planning. The framework uses sustainable social capital and a stable sense of self to help support the healthy development of young people in foster care. It is a product of the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative. Read More
Katrina's Window Confronting Concentrated Poverty Across America Hurricane Katrina’s assault on New Orleans’ most vulnerable residents and neighborhoods reinvigorated a dialogue on race and class in America. This paper argues that the conversation should focus special attention on alleviating this outdated concentrated urban poverty—the segregation of poor families into extremely distressed neighborhoods. Read More
Continuing in Foster Care Beyond Age 18: How Courts Can Help The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services asked Chapin Hall Center to take a hard look at why some kids stay in foster care after turning 18 and other eligible youth don’t. This issue brief shares the center’s findings and gives public child welfare agencies clear recommendations on raising retention rates in extended care. Read More
An SEA Guide for Identifying Evidence-Based Interventions for School Improvement This guide is designed to help State Education Agencies (SEAs) conduct self-studies to identify interventions that may be implemented in schools needing improvement or that require comprehensive or targeted support. The interventions selected should be those that are most relevant and appropriate based on the needs of schools, with the strongest evidence base possible under the Every Student Succeeds Act. Read More
Casey Connects: Winter 2008 Responsible Redevelopment Means Much More Than Better Buildings This issue of Casey Connects focuses on responsible redevelopment and how the Annie E. Casey Foundation is investing in better buildings and — even more — broader opportunities and benefits for residents in distressed neighborhoods. Smaller stories introduce Casey’s online juvenile justice reform helpline plus 7 movers and shakers who are advancing the Foundation’s work. Read More
Community Building to Drive Change Strategies for the Atlanta Civic Site This brief summarizes Casey’s decade-long involvement in improving community viability and family life in a distressed section of Atlanta, Georgia. Read More
Children of Immigrants Economic Well-Being This data brief is the fourth in a series that profiles children of immigrants. It focuses on immigrant families’ incomes, economic well-being and use of public benefits. Read More
Bringing Promise to Washington, D.C. The DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative Working with partners ranging from residents to businesses to schools to assistance agencies, this Washington, D.C. collaborative is establishing the groundwork to keep kids healthy and in school from cradle to college. Read More
AdvoCasey: Spring 2002 Paul Revere Rides Again: Inside the Remarkable Rise of the Houston Public Schools This issue of AdvoCasey starts with an article examining the academic transformation of schools in Houston, then delivers a story on Chicago’s Child-Parent Centers before moving to Miami to spotlight innovative treatments for substance-using teens. The final story lands in Tulsa, Okla., and tells how a local nonprofit is helping working poor families avoid expensive tax preparation fees, maximize refunds and save for the future. AdvoCasey is a seasonal publication of the Foundation that covers some serious ground. Each themed issue spotlights programs and policies that have made measurable differences in the lives of kids and families. Read More
AdvoCasey: Summer 1999 “Above Average” Welfare Reform This edition of AdvoCasey examines the ripple of changes sparked by the landmark federal welfare law of 1996. Readers will learn about an array of financial incentive programs — in both the United States and Canada — that are helping welfare recipients secure work and bigger paychecks. A smaller story reviews one of America’s most effective anti-poverty programs, the Earned Income Tax Credit. Read More
