A Child Welfare Leader's Desk Guide to Building a High-Performing Agency 10 Practices Part One The child welfare leader’s desk guide helps child welfare leaders gauge their agency’s effectiveness and chart a course toward improvement. Read More
The Future of Youth Justice A Community-Based Alternative to the Youth Prison Model America’s longstanding youth prison model, which emphasizes confinement and control, exacerbates youth trauma and inhibits positive growth while failing to address public safety. This report delivers a clear and compelling call to close these youth prisons. It also introduces readers to an alternate model — rooted in a continuum of community-based programs — that aims to set all children on a pathway to success. Read More
Icebreaker Meetings A Tool for Building Relationships Between Birth and Foster Parents The Casey Foundation created this step-by-step practice guide with several online appendices to help child welfare agencies understand Icebreaker family meetings and shift into "parent partner" mode. Read More
Generation Work Equipping Young People With In-Demand Employment Skills and Credentials This report checks in on a multiyear, five-site initiative launched by the Annie E. Casey Foundation in 2016. Called Generation Work, this initiative explores new ways of connecting young people — particularly youth of color — with the knowledge and experience necessary to succeed in today’s job market. Read More
Youth and Credit Protecting the Credit of Youth in Foster Care This guide provides advice on the best way for caseworkers and other adults to comply with the new federal law requiring child welfare agencies to request an annual credit report for youth in foster care starting at age 16 and until they leave the child welfare system — and to help young people resolve any issues that come up in those credit report checks. Read More
Disparities and Disproportionality in Child Welfare Analysis of the Research This compendium includes papers from the July 2010 symposium convened by the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) and The Annie E. Casey Foundation to reflect on current research related to racial differences in child welfare services, treatment and outcomes. Read More
Creating Equitable Ecosystems of Belonging and Opportunity for Youth An Action Guide for Cross-System and Sector Leaders and Practitioners A new guide aims to help leaders strengthen cross-system efforts to support youth well-being and development. Explore the guide. Read More
Trauma Informed Practice With Young People in Foster Care Issue Brief #5 This issue brief defines trauma, then discusses the trauma foster kids may go through and how caregivers and social workers should be ready to help. Read More
Leadership and Race How to Develop and Support Leadership that Contributes to Racial Justice Institutional racism persists in the United States, blocking opportunity into the higher eschaleons of the business and social sectors. Here's a way to change that. Read More
Family-Engaged Case Planning A Practice Guide for Transforming Juvenile Probation This practice guide helps juvenile justice agencies implement family-engaged case planning in youth probation. Read it now. Read More
