Blog Archive

New $5 Million Grant Program Will Connect Youth Facing Obstacles to Higher Education and Employment

In partnership with the Corporation for National and Community Service’s Social Innovation Fund, the Annie E. Casey Foundation announced today that it plans to award $5.4 million in grants over the next three years to help more teens and young adults complete high school and postsecondary education and build paths to careers.

And the Survey Says: Aspen Institute Examines Efforts to Connect Young Adults to Jobs

Nearly 6.7 million young adults are not working or in school, and the young adult unemployment rate hit 12.2% — more than double the national unemployment rate — in June 2015. The consequences of unemployment and underemployment can be long-lasting and include reduced wages, decreased productivity and shortened career ladders.

Recognizing the challenges facing America’s youngest workers, the Foundation commissioned the Aspen Institute Workforce Strategies Initiative to examine how organizations are helping adults ages 18 to 29 succeed in today’s labor market. The report gathered feedback from nearly 400 individuals at 340 organizations nationwide.

New Reports Provide a Roadmap for Creating Opportunities for Baltimore's Young People

More than one in five young people ages 16 to 24 in Baltimore are neither in school nor working. Two recently released reports make important recommendations for finding new ways to reconnect these young people with education, training, jobs and entrepreneurship opportunities — focusing on expanding industry-specific training programs, fostering more collaboration between organizations and providing expanded support services for youth to help them succeed.

Evidence2Success Profiled in Stanford Social Innovation Review Article on Community Engagement

A new article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review makes the case that community engagement is a critical component of effective data-driven, evidence-based social change, and profiles the Foundation’s Evidence2Success framework as an example of how these strategies can come together.

Mobile, Alabama, Becomes Latest Evidence2Success Site

Mobile, Alabama, joins forces with the Foundation to implement Casey's evidence-based framework for promoting healthy kids and school success. The Evidence2Success model will partner system leaders and community residents to address the critical education needs of kids and families in three Mobile neighborhoods.

Using an Evidence-Based Approach to Reduce Trauma’s Impact on Children

Evidence2Success stakeholders in Providence turn their focus toward wide-spread school-aged trauma as leaders tackle one of the toughest underlying education issues with a proven strategy — Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS).

Will Asset-Building Policies Lead to Equity? Applying the Racial Wealth Audit

The Foundation recently recommended four policy prescriptions to help all families build assets and savings while reducing the racial wealth gap. But how would we know whether these policies could really be successful in promoting greater equity? Enter the Racial Wealth Audit, developed by the Institute on Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University in partnership with Demos, to help answer that question.

Progress Check: Youth Confinement in America Today

Youth prisons and correctional facilities are dangerous, ineffective and unnecessary. So it's good news that America’s youth confinement rate dropped across all racial and ethnic groups during the last decade — and by 40% overall.