New Grants to Help Strengthen Workforce Development in Casey’s Hometowns The National Fund for Workforce Solutions awarded $2.4M to boost economic mobility in Atlanta, Baltimore, Cleveland and Syracuse. Learn more. Read More
Improving Access to Support Services for Teens in Foster Care An Instagram Live conversation discussed strategies to help more young people access federally funded services provided by child welfare agencies. Watch the recording. Read More
Training for Grassroots Organizations Wanting To Offer Alternatives to Incarceration Community Connections for Youth has helped 150 groups advance alternatives to incarceration by strengthening grassroots organizations. Learn more. Read More
Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health Discover the profound impact of COVID-19 on mental health, from rising anxiety and depression to the rapid growth of telemedicine. Read More
As Schools Go Remote, Pivot to Prevention Adds Telehealth Tools Pivot to Prevention program, backed by the Casey Foundation, expands telehealth tools to support students’ mental and behavioral health. Learn more. Read More
Lessons from the Field: How Neighborhood Data Can Improve Low-Income Communities A new book, Strengthening Communities with Neighborhood Data, highlights successful examples of policymakers using neighborhood data from the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership(NNIP) to get a clearer picture of needed change. Read More
An Innovative Training Program is Helping Atlantans Get — and Keep — Jobs Researchers at Emory University compared a workforce training program called Atlanta CareerRise to more traditional training approaches. Their review found that Atlanta CareerRise did a better job at helping individuals get hired, stay employed and increase their earnings. Read More
California Considers Final Closure of its State Youth Corrections System California considers final closure of its state youth corrections system, part of the state's juvenile justice reform that started in 2007. Read More
Get Georgia Reading Campaign Officially Kicks Off Get Georgia Reading — a statewide campaign to get all children on a path to reading on grade level by the end of third grade — officially launched at an August event that included First Lady Sandra Deal, as well as state commissioners, educators, parents, business leaders and children’s authors. Read More
Former Casey Youth Council Member Appointed to Virginia’s Juvenile Justice Board Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has appointed a former Annie E. Casey Foundation youth partnership consultant, Quwanisha Hines Roman, to the state’s nine-member Board of Juvenile Justice. Read More
