More Teens With High School Diploma Most states see improvement in high school graduation rates. Read More
Families Lost Income, Struggled to Make Ends Meet During Pandemic From 2020 to 2021, about 40% of U.S. families with kids struggled to pay for regular household expenses. Learn which families were hardest hit. Read More
Register: Conducting a Fiscal Analysis to Implement Family First Prevention Services Act The Annie E. Casey Foundation is hosting a webinar on July 22, 2020 to debut a Foundation tool and guide for child welfare leaders to plan their fiscal approaches to implementing the Family First Prevention Services Act. Read More
Taking Stock of the Texas "Closer to Home" Study: Ten Lessons for the Juvenile Justice Field The Casey Foundation's Nate Balis explores the national implications of groundbreaking research on juvenile-justice reforms in Texas. Read More
Two Organizations Help a Young Man Move From Homeless to Career Path Ian was homeless and stuck working temp jobs he didn’t love. Cue two organizations — Youth Empowered Society and JARC Baltimore — that helped the 24-year-old from Baltimore City get back on his feet and connected to a career in the building and construction industry. Read More
Southside Works’ Career Fairs at Pittsburgh Yards A series of career fairs has yielded lessons on creating economic opportunity in Atlanta. Read organizers' takeaways. Read More
Five Questions with Casey: Nate Balis on What’s Next for Juvenile Justice Reforms With more than 15 years of experience in juvenile justice, social policy and system reform, Nate Balis directs the Foundation's Juvenile Justice Strategy Group. For Five Questions with Casey, we sat down with Balis as his team launches a three-day conference for more than 900 juvenile justice reformers involved with the Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI). Read More
Five Questions with Casey: Beadsie Woo on Protecting the Credit of Foster Youth Beadsie Woo, senior associate in Casey's Center for Community and Economic Opportunity, discusses building and protecting the credit of youth in foster care. Read More
California Adopts Innovative Tools to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes Two technology-related nonprofits, both started with seed money from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, are gaining traction and recently began work in California. Case Commons and Kids Insight have been tapped to help improve the state’s capacity for using data to improve outcomes for children and families in the child welfare system. Read More
Philadelphia Foreclosure Prevention Program Serves as Model Read the story of Sandra Rodriguez, a mother of three who was able to keep her home with help from Philadelphia's innovative foreclosure prevention program, supported in part through Casey's Making Connections initiative. Read More