Sites Selected to Pilot New Deep-End Reform Strategy At the 2012 JDAI Intersite Conference in Houston, leaders discused the Casey Foundation's intentions to expand the focus of JDAI to the "deep end" of the system, focusing on safely reducing post-dispositional incarceration and other forms of out-of-home placement. Read More
Infant Mortality Rate at Historic Low The rate of infant mortality has dropped 34% since 1990 in the United States. This proves to be an all-time low in the country. Read More
Members of the 2013-2014 Children and Family Fellowship Sixteen leaders from across the country have been named to the 2013-2014 class of the Children and Family Fellowship. Read More
20th-Anniversary Children and Family Fellowship Class Announced Sixteen children and family services leaders will work toward community and system reform. Read More
Child Maltreatment Rates Increase In 2011, approximately 663,000 children experienced maltreatment, with younger children being included in this group at an increasing rate. Read More
Latest Results Report Show Significant Site Progress Each year, JDAI sites send results reports to the Casey Foundation informing them of the progress and impact of detention reform in their jurisdictions. These results have shown that sites have continued to achieve significant reductions in the use detention while improving public safety and sending fewer youth to state facilities. Read More
More Children in Foster Care Raised by Relatives in 2011 Data in recent years show that the percentage of children not living with their parents continues to rise. Read More
Five Questions with Casey: Gail Hayes on Early Childhood Education Gail Hayes, director of Casey's Atlanta Civic Site until her retirement at the end of 2013, discusses the effort to deliver quality early childhood education at the state and national level. 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
Pierce County Illustrates Rewards of Digging Deeper Into Data to Reduce Bias The Washington Supreme Court's newsletter, Full Court Press, reported on a presentation by Pierce County JDAI before the state Supreme Court. The meeting, attended by Superior Court judges and statewide juvenile justice leaders, was convened to look at bias and disproportionality in the juvenile justice system. Read More
