The DREAM Act Securing America’s Future in Education This brief outlines a case for the DREAM Act as a means of providing educational opportunities to undocumented immigrant children who have grown up in America and consider the United States home. Read More
Pursuit of the Dream Cars & Jobs in America Using three real-life stories, this discussion guide illustrates ways in which common pitfalls prevent families from reaching better jobs, better opportunities and a better quality of life. Read More
Working Hard for the Money Trends in Women's Employment, 1970 to 2008 This report, which spans nearly 40 years of women's employment trends, is the first major study of women's employment trends to tease out differences between rural and urban women's work. Read More
A Doctor When We Need One Access to Healthcare in Wisconsin for Immigrant Children and Families From flu shots to school physicals, basic medical care is vital to growing up healthy. Yet, for immigrant families, the hurdles to health care can be steep. This policy brief is set in Wisconsin but packed with statistics, stories and solutions that cross all geographic boundaries. Its main message? We must do more to connect America’s immigrant families with quality, timely medical care — and here’s how. Read More
Opportunity Passport - June 2015 Data Brief This brief shows the impact of the Opportunity Passport™ financial literacy campaign on youth leaving foster care. Read More
Toward Reduced Poverty Across Generations: Full Report Early Findings from New York City's Conditional Cash Transfer Program This comprehensive report offers a preliminary assessment of New York City's conditional cash transfer (CCT) program of paying participants to improve education and workforce skills. Read More
Using an Investment Approach to Grantmaking Lessons Learned from the Casey Foundation's Jobs Initiative This report explores the challenges, similarities and differences among local and national investors in workforce development initiatives. Read More
A Snapshot of Children on the San Diego-Mexico Border This report — part of the KIDS COUNT Snapshot series — looks at life in San Diego County’s border communities. These areas are home to higher proportions of Mexican immigrants and Latinos who face distinct challenges such as language barriers, higher child poverty rates and higher teen birth rates compared to other communities in the county. Read More
Improving Medicaid Managed Care for Youth with Serious Behavioral Health Needs A Quality Improvement Toolkit This tool kit shares the experiences of nine Medicaid managed care organizations which collaborated over a two-year period to identify better ways to care for youth with serious behavioral health needs. Its pages tell of quality-improvement strategies, challenges, lessons learned and care innovations worthy of a closer look. Read More
Metropolitan Conditions and Trends Changing Contexts for a Community Initiative This report reviews recent trends for social and economic conditions in the 10 metropolitan areas surrounding the Casey Foundation's Making Connections initiative cities, giving context for the neighborhood programs being implemented. Read More
