Casey Connects Newsletter

The Casey Foundation’s print newsletter documents our work across the country to help vulnerable children and families succeed.

Casey Connects, Winter 2013

For too many children, access to opportunity is limited by the places where they grow up. Children living in high-poverty neighborhoods are too often derailed by economic instability, inadequate services and poor preparation, starting in early childhood, to succeed in school and life. Strategies that help parents get on a more secure economic footing while simultaneously addressing early barriers to success for children can change this trajectory. In this issue, you’ll see how Baltimore and Atlanta are addressing multiple challenges to help families thrive and about how communities nationwide are benefiting from a national campaign to ensure that children reach the critical milestone of reading proficiently by third grade. more >>

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Casey Connects, Spring 2012

Every child needs and deserves a permanent family whose support is unconditional. Research shows that the odds of a successful transition to adulthood are severely compromised when young people are cut off from a family environment and left to languish in group care. Focusing specifically on efforts to reduce the use of congregate care in the child welfare system, this issue of Casey Connects offers examples of how a new practice model is reducing the time kids spend in foster care; how new research on teenage brain development is promoting better policies and practices for older youth in foster care; and how jurisdictions successfully are transitioning more youth from group care to family settings. more >>

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Casey Connects, Summer 2011

This issue reflects on a decade of investments in four interrelated areas: tapping the strengths of faith-based organizations; removing stumbling blocks to opportunity for people returning from incarceration and their families; providing a foundation for healthy relationships and marriages; and supporting strong and responsible fatherhood. The articles describe the impact of these efforts on individual people and family-serving organizations. more >>

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Casey Connects: Winter 2010-2011

In this issue of the Annie E. Casey Foundation newsletter, President/CEO Patrick McCarthy discusses honoring founder Jim Casey's legacy through the Foundation's core values. Highlights include Casey's launch of a local campaign for grade-level reading in Connecticut, a new web-based tool with the potential to transform child welfare case managment, and Casey's work to make evidence-based practice the norm in serving children and families. more >>

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Casey Connects: Reflections on Doug Nelson’s 20 Years of Leadership, Spring 2010

This Casey Connects reflects upon Doug Nelson’s tenure as the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s president. Also included are segments on child welfare lawsuits, informing and influencing public policy, social investments, and data driven reform. more >>

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Casey Connects Fall 2009

This issue of our Casey Connects newsletter explores ways that Casey is working to make sure new public policies benefit vulnerable families. more >>

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Casey Connects Winter 2009: Special Policy Issue

This special policy issue of our Casey Connects newsletter provides a framework for improving federal policy in areas where the Foundation has the deepest experience and the best evidence of successful strategies. Included are recommendations for reducing poverty and promoting opportunity, reforming the child welfare system, rebuilding the juvenile justice system, and improving the nation’s data on children and families. more >>

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Casey Connects: Summer 2008

Sustaining improved outcomes for children is enormously difficult when their families face so much stress and distress because of economic circumstances. This issue describes how the Casey Foundation has stepped up efforts to support promising efforts nationwide to combat poverty, while also building the popular and political will needed to spur action by federal, state, and local policymakers. The issue also features highlights of the 2008 KIDS COUNT Data Book, which includes an essay offering a roadmap for reforming the nation’s juvenile justice system. more >>

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Casey Connects: Winter 2008

Why is a foundation devoted to disadvantaged children supporting major redevelopment projects in Baltimore and beyond? Casey’s community change strategy is grounded in the belief that improving distressed neighborhoods will boost children’s odds for success. The Winter 2008 issue of Casey Connects highlights efforts in Baltimore and other cities to promote responsible redevelopment -- to ensure that residents who either stay or are relocated truly benefit and that the rebuilding process is carried out in partnership with the community. more >>

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Casey Connects: Spring 2007

Visit any community where the Casey Foundation provides support, and you'll find a common denominator: talented, passionate residents who are deeply involved and assuming leadership. The Spring 2007 issue of Casey Connects, our quarterly newsletter, describes just how pivotal community engagement is to the Casey mission. It also highlights examples of how we work directly with community members to make a significant difference in the lives of children and families. more >>

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Casey Connects: Winter 2007

This issue highlights steps being taken and markers of progress in an emerging national movement to ensure that no child grows to adulthood without a lifelong connection to a caring adult. The issue also celebrates four new organizations honored by the Casey Foundation's Families Count program.  more >>

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Casey Connects Newsletter, Issue 23, Winter 2006

This issue highlights the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Juvenile Detention Reform Initiative (JDAI) and how detention systems are failing to meet the needs of girls.  more >>

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Casey Connects: Summer 2006

In this issus: KIDS COUNT Data Book Urges Support for Family-Based Child Care; Casey Family Services Marks 30 Years of Helping Children and Families; Event to Focus on Permanent Family Connections; Former Foster Youth Shares Story; Resource Corner; INSITES. more >>

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Casey Connects: Fall 2005

This special electronic issue of Casey Connects is designed to chronicle evolving responses from our network of grantees and partners to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. more >>

Casey Connects Newsletter, Issue 19, Winter 2005

This issue focuses on applying Casey lessons to rural poverty and using deposits to invest in community well-being.  more >>

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Casey Connects: Summer 2005

In this issue: KIDS COUNT Message Highlights Barriers to Employment; Report Calls Attention to Plight of Children Living on the Border; Resource Corner; INSITES. more >>

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Casey Connects Newsletter, Issue 20, Spring 2005

In this issue the articles focus on pursuing permanent families for children and youth, and reducing racial disparities in child welfare.  more >>

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Casey Connects Newsletter, Issue 16, Winter 2004

This issue highlights efforts for successful reintegration and the important of leadership in sustaining “Family to Family” reforms.  more >>

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Casey Connects Newsletter, Issue 18, Fall 2004

This issue focuses on executive leadership transitions in nonprofits, and the impact that Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) campaigns have on low-income workers.  more >>

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Casey Connects: Winter/Spring 2003

This issue explores the role of the faith community in family strengthening. more >>

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Casey Connects: Summer 2003

IN THIS ISSUE: Countering the Hidden Costs of Poverty; Notes of Recognition; Supporting America’s Other Frontline more >>

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Casey Connects Newsletter, Issue 15, Fall 2003

This issue contains articles that focus on immigrant and refugee families struggle to survive in America, National Family Week, and the Charitable Giving Act.  more >>

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Casey Connects Newsletter, Issue 12, Fall 2002

In this issue articles focus on family strengthening messages, National Family Week, and on the resource center. Also included is a story of one community group offering self-help to low-income families who desire to achieve a piece of the “American Dream.”  more >>

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Casey Connects Newsletter, Issue 10, Spring 2002

In this issue the articles focus on the welfare reform debate, programs working to make fathers count, and conference highlights focused on a team approach to foster care.  more >>

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Casey Connects Newsletter, 11, Summer 2002

This issue focuses on making work count for low-income families, racial disparities in juvenile detention, and the role of cultural competency in connecting workers to jobs.  more >>

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Casey Connects Newsletter, Issue 9, Winter 2002

This issue focuses on the Foundation’s juvenile justice, family economic success, and immigration work.  more >>

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Casey Connects Newsletter, Issue 5, Winter 2001

This issue focuses on the Oakland Citizens’ Rally for small schools, the 2001 National Families Count honorees, and profiles a new group of Casey Fellows.  more >>

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Casey Connects Newsletter, Issue 7, Summer 2001

This issue focuses on children transitioning from foster care, the Casey Strategic Consulting Group’s work to reform public agencies, and the advocacy of some Bridgeport activists.  more >>

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Casey Connects Newsletter, Issue 6, Spring 2001

In this issue articles focus on using data in the Making Connections Initiative and the impact of the MC3 welfare reform conference  more >>

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Casey Connects Newsletter, Issue 8, Fall 2001

This issue contains articles on mobilizing resources in response to terrorism, adoption, and child welfare practice. Also included are reflections of the Families Count Honorees.  more >>

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Casey Connects Newsletter, Issue 04, Fall 2000

This issue includes articles on tailor-made technical assistance, the Families Count Honorees, and the KIDS COUNT State Network.  more >>

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Casey Connects Newsletter, Issue 3, Summer 2000

This issue focuses on the 2000 KIDS COUNT data book, the work of Casey Family Services, and challenges faced by immigrant families.  more >>

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Casey Connects: Winter 2000

IN THIS ISSUE: Casey Refocuses on Family and Neigborhoods; Resource Corner; Increased Assets Won't Change Foundation's Course; Seven Local Foundations Awarded "Families Count" Honors more >>

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Casey Connect Newsletter, Issue 2, Spring 2000

This issue focuses on the grants process, child welfare reform, and learnings from foster care changes.  more >>

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