AdvoCasey: Summer 2002 Work First, What Next? This edition of AdvoCasey explores how welfare reform has evolved to reconnect families to the economic mainstream. It spotlights welfare-to-work models that are helping participants find jobs, build skills and move up the career ladder. It also reviews how welfare reform impact kids and what challenges many families face when they leave the welfare rolls. Read More
Casey Connects: Summer 2002 Making Work Count for Low-Income Families This issue of Casey Connects uses KIDS COUNT Data Book statistics to examine how American families are faring in the wake of welfare reform. A second story spotlights a Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative site that has successfully written race and ethnicity out of the detention decision equation. Smaller stories highlight Casey-celebrated movers and shakers, the importance of cultural competence in connecting workers to jobs and lessons from the Foundation’s Rebuilding Communities Initiative. Read More
Caregiver's Handbook for Money Pals Being Cool with Cash and I Know Where I'm Going Written for caregivers of foster youth, this guide gives concrete direction in teaching financial skills to help foster kids find their dreams and have the money to make them reality. Read More
I Know Where I'm Going, Part Two But Will My Cash Keep Up? This workbook, part of a 2-book set, is designed to stimulate conversations with foster children, ages 12 to 15, about investing money, being a savvy shopper and using a credit card. Read More
I Know Where I'm Going, Part One But Will My Cash Keep Up This guide, written for teenagers in foster care, provides the knowledge and skills necessary to be financially savvy and able to save for your future. Read More
Money Pals, Part Two Being Cool with Cash This workbook is designed to teach foster children, ages 8 to 11, practical skills about shopping, such as keeping a spending diary, being a smart shopper and understanding advertising. Read More
Money Pals, Part One Being Cool with Cash This workbook is designed to teach children in foster care, ages 8 to 11, practical skills about using money, Read More
Team Decisionmaking: Building Community Partnerships in Child Welfare (Part 2) Involving the Family and Community in Child Welfare Decisions This manual, created for Casey's Family to Family grantees, shows how team decisionmaking works as a strategy for permanence in family foster care system, and how state agencies can incorporate it into their day to day practice. Read More
What is Trauma? This five-page report reviews symptoms and treatments associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and trauma. It tells how traumatic events can impact children and offers four recommendations for helping them cope with trauma. Read More
Philanthropic Due Diligence Exploratory Case Studies to Improve Investments in Urban Schools This paper proposes using Exploratory Case Studies as a tool to improve philanthropic giving to school districts empowering funders to make smarter, more strategic investments in our children’s future. Read More
