Application Call: Join Casey’s Juvenile Justice Applied Leadership Network Teams can apply for the Juvenile Justice Applied Leadership Network through July 10, 2023. Read more about this opportunity. Read More
Low Preschool Enrollment Rates Threaten to Worsen Student Achievement More than 50% of America's preschool-aged kids are not enrolled, and this statistic is growing. See the data. Read More
Evaluation Lessons From Family-Centered Community Change Can working with public systems to integrate services and serve parents and children at the same time spark broader community change? In a new webinar, the Annie E. Casey Foundation revisits its Family-Centered Community Change effort to explore this very question. Read More
Pediatric Organization Calls for Juvenile Justice Reforms A new fact sheet looks at the prevalence of trauma among youth in the juvenile justice system. Read a call for reforms to better protect young people. Read More
Juvenile Justice Is Smaller, but More Unequal, After First Year of COVID-19 A year after the coronavirus pandemic began, the Casey Foundation finds that a historic drop in the size of the youth detention population at the beginning of 2020 did nothing to reduce the already huge racial and ethnic disparities in who gets detained. Read More
What is Social Investing? Social Investing, also referred to as “mission investing” in the philanthropic world, means placing assets into investments that provide a societal or mission-related benefit in addition to a financial return. Read More
Helping Young Parents Succeed in College and Life This post looks at America's young student parents. It examines who they are, where they struggle, and what supports and services they need to succeed. Read More
At Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Dramatic and Rapid Reductions in Youth Detention The number of young people in secure detention centers fell by 24% in March 2020, according to a survey of juvenile jsutice agencies. Learn how the coronavirus pandemic is dramatically altering the juvenile justice system. Read More
Chronic Absenteeism in U.S. Schools Rose During Pandemic — and Hasn’t Recovered As schools around the nation kick off another academic year, chronic absenteeism is a lingering concern. Read why. Read More
Resources for Holding Icebreaker Meetings Between Birth and Foster Parents Building relationships between birth parents, foster parents and caseworkers can be extremely important for foster kids, and using Icebreaker meetings can be an effective mechanism for doing that. Read More