Blog Archive

Children Living in High-Poverty Communities Surged 25% During Past Decade

Nearly 8 million of America’s children live in high-poverty areas – about 1.6 million more since 2000 – according to a new KIDS COUNT data snapshot from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

What is Permanence?

Every child needs and deserves to grow up in a safe, loving and nurturing family – a family whose support is unconditional and will last a lifetime.

How Casey Promotes Permanence for Kids in Child Welfare

The Casey Foundation believes all children need and deserve a family, and, therefore, has invested significantly in advancing permanence for those children and young people in the foster care system. Permanence can take the form of a return to birth family, kinship care, guardianship or adoption.

Patrick McCarthy on the Increasing Struggles of America's Working Families

Four years after a call to arms to fight poverty during the historic presidential election of 2008, the Annie E. Casey Foundation's President and CEO Patrick McCarthy calls for increased awareness of disadvantaged children. McCarthy delivered these remarks during a welcoming speech at the Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity forum in January 2012.

Guide to Fidelity Measurement for the Lifelong Families Model

This toolkit contains the 13 inventories and forms used to measure fidelity when applying the principles and components of Lifelong Families, a foster care practice model.

Casey Partners with First Focus to Create State Policy Advocacy and Reform Center for Child Welfare

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is helping to form a nonpartisan center to enhance the existing network of state child welfare policy advocates working to achieve comprehensive reforms for children and families involved in child welfare systems.

Capturing the Big Ideas to Create More Jobs

Big Ideas for Jobs is an online portal where elected officials, as well as business and local leaders, can learn from one another, discover new ideas and develop a community where everyone can highlight what’s working.

Ryan Chao Named Vice President of Civic Sites and Community Change

Ryan Chao, the current executive director of Berkeley, Calif.-based Satellite Housing, was selected to be vice president of Civic Sites and Community Change. He will oversee the Foundation’s community change investments, including its most significant community transformation initiatives in Baltimore and Atlanta.

McCarthy Speaks at Community and Diversity in American Life Colloquium

President and CEO Patrick T. McCarthy spoke at the Community and Diversity in American Life forumat the University of Maryland, College Park. He focused on the 2011 KIDS COUNT Data Book and work done by the Foundation in areas of strengthening families, communities and opportunity for all.

Casey Vice President Lisa Hamilton Addresses the KIDS COUNT Network

Casey's Vice President of External Affairs Lisa Hamilton delivered the opening keynote address at the annual gathering of the KIDS COUNT network in Baltimore in 2011.