Community Connections for Youth Earns Casey's 2017 Gloria J. Jenkins Award The Casey Foundation named Community Connections for Youth its 2017 Gloria J. Jenkins Award winner for advancing community-led detention reform. Read More
U.S. Population Has Grown 20% in Just Two Decades Over the last 20 years, the U.S. population has grown by 20% — from 269.4 million Americans in 1996 to 323.1 million in 2016 — and skewed older in age. Read More
Two Social Justice Champions Receive Bimel Award Lynn Ausley and Frankie Guzman won Casey’s 2019 Natalie S. Bimel Award for their work in youth justice reform in WA and CA. Read More
Members of the 1995 Children and Family Fellowship Nine leaders from across the country have been named to the 1995 class of the Children and Family Fellowship. Read More
Four Compelling Reasons to Use Racial Equity Impact Assessments for Policy Decisions Tools for Thought: Using Racial Equity Impact Assessments for Effective Policymaking, the third installment of the Race for Results case study series, highlights the use and effectiveness of Racial Equity Impact Assessment (REIA) tools, and gives leaders and advocates a tangible mechanism to craft race-conscious legislation and policies. Read More
Building Evidence on How to Move Young Latinas Toward College Con Mi MADRE helps girls succeed from 6th grade through college by building on mother-daughter bonds. Casey is supporting evidence of its impact. Read More
Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Young Immigrants This session spotlights a community-led, non-clinical approach to supporting mental health in Latino communities. Watch the webinar. Read More
2018 Snapshot of Kids in Foster Care The gender and age breakdowns of kids in the U.S. foster care system have remained fairly consistent since 2003. View the data details. Read More
One in Five Children is Food Insecure in 2010 Recent data show that more than 1 in 5 U.S. children lived in homes that were food insecure at some point during the year. Read More
Child Poverty Declines After Peaking in 2011 After the Great Recession, the nation's child poverty rate increased steadily, peaking at 23% in 2011. Since then, the rate has been on a slow decline and, in 2015, reached its lowest level in five years, at which point one out of every five children lived in poverty. Read More
