Attorney General Eric Holder Energizes KIDS COUNT Conference U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder celebrated the Foundation as “a champion for disadvantaged young people from coast to coast” that has broken barriers, strengthened families and contributed to improvements in juvenile justice, in a stirring Oct. 1 speech during the Foundation’s KIDS COUNT conference in Baltimore. Read More
Casebook: A 21st-Century Tool for Family-Centered Practice Case Commons, a Foundation grantee, has developed a transformative child welfare case management technology system. A new video explores the ways technology can help reform child welfare systems and practices. Read More
Tips for Collaborating Across Sectors to Achieve Results A new working paper shares insights and tips from practitioners and investors involved in multisector efforts to achieve common, focused results that improve the circumstances for kids, families and communities — also known as collective impact. Read More
New Report Documents Educational Stability Movement for Foster Youth A new Foundation report describes policy wins made in the efforts to promote improvements in school stability for youth in foster care. Read More
Thirty-five Largest U.S. Cities Saw Increase in Child Poverty Rate Between 2005 and 2013 The 2013 American Community Survey data show the first decline in the national child poverty rate since it began to rise in 2008. Although many cities also experienced declines between 2012 and 2013, the child poverty rate in the majority of America’s largest cities has not yet returned to prerecession levels. Read More
Five Questions with Casey: Tracey Feild on the Need to Reform Child Welfare Funding Tracey Feild, director and manager of the Child Welfare Strategy Group, discusses child welfare funding reform. Read More
Reflecting on 25 Years of the KIDS COUNT Data Book: Rethinking Public Services (1993) To mark the 25th anniversary of our KIDS COUNT initiative, this is the first in a series of articles chronicling how selected themes of the KIDS COUNT Data Book helped define a generation of work at the Casey Foundation and shape the field. Read More
25 Years of the KIDS COUNT Data Book: Rethinking Public Services (1993) To mark the 25th anniversary of our KIDS COUNT initiative, this is the first in a series of articles chronicling how selected themes of the KIDS COUNT Data Book helped define a generation of work at the Casey Foundation and shape the field. Read More
Five Things You Need to Know About Measuring Poverty in America As debates swirl about measuring poverty in the United States, Casey's Laura Speer offers five important facts to consider. Read More
Fresh Strategies for Creating Jobs at Big Ideas for Jobs The Big Ideas for Jobs project has once again tapped into the minds of some of the brightest experts from a variety of fields to come up with a new set of ideas that can lead to sustainable jobs today. Their proposals span areas of federal policy, industries and entrepreneurship. Read More
