Casey Connects: Winter 2010-2011 This issue of Casey Connects highlights how the Foundation is honoring Jim Casey’s legacy by putting families first. New York City implemented an evidence-based practice approach in helping troubled teens remain with their families. The entire community of New Britain, Connecticut, embraced family literacy and a grade-level reading campaign to ensure all students succeed. Using social networking technology, Casebook helps transform child welfare case management, taking caseworkers away from administrative tasks and closer to family needs. Read More
Casey Connects: Spring 2000 Pioneering Panel Hastens Pace Of Child Welfare Reform This issue of Casey Connects proves how true transformation starts with the heart — the heart of the individual as well as the heart of a public system — as three Casey reform initiatives are dissected. Read More
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
Resident Involvement in Community Change The Experiences of Two Initiatives Involving people in local neighborhood change creates problems as well as better solutions, as this report demonstrates through an examination of Casey's Plain Talk and Community Change for Youth Development philanthropy projects. Read More
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
Seeding the Field The Creation and Growth of the Center for Working Families Approach This report discusses the Casey Foundation’s germination of a new approach to helping the poor find the social, financial and economic help available to them in a one-stop shopping environment – a new concept at the time. 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
Building an Integrated Services Model This report describes how peer technical assistance – which allows participating communities to share knowledge, and leverage practical experience and innovations from other places – can help strengthen families. Read More
Casey in Baltimore: Supporting Nonprofits that Help Children and Families Creating Successful Futures for Children and Families The Annie E. Casey Foundation is deeply invested in building a better Baltimore, Maryland. This report checks in on 11 initiatives — including a fatherhood support series, youth center and mentor program — that highlight the many ways that Casey is working to improve the lives of Baltimore’s families and children since 1995. It is part of a larger series that examines Casey’s family-strengthening efforts in specific cities. Read More
Hometown Prosperity Increasing Opportunity for DC's Low-Income Working Families The benefits of Washington, DC’s growing economic prosperity have bypassed the District’s working poor families. This report examines why the District’s economic recovery has eluded many low-income residents and what can be done about it. Read More
