Welfare Reform
The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s grantmaking promotes the best of state and local welfare reform practices, including transitional jobs programs.
This brief presents a high-level overview of Casey's efforts to address gaps in the systems that serve disadvantaged children and families. It presents the long-term commitment to systems change through its Human Services Workforce Initiative.
Nationally, billions of dollars are wasted by inefficiencies in the human services industry that fails to prepare, attract, retain, support or reward frontline workers. Casey set out to prove that change is possible. Casey's grantmaking is increasingly focused on systems reform to better meet the needs of disadvantaged children and families. It started with this initiative.