Blog Archive

Five Top States for Placing Children in Child Welfare in Families

An analysis of 2013 data on the placements of children from birth through age 20 showed that the percentages living in group placements ranged from 4% to 35%. Five states that have kept family placements high and group placements low.

Five Questions with Casey: Rob Geen and the Importance of Family

In this "Five Questions" edition, Geen discusses findings from the KIDS COUNT Policy Report, Every Kid Needs a Family, about the importance of connecting children in foster care with families.

The Orphanage Evolves: Providers Shift to Put More Kids in Families

Today, private providers of residential placements based on the ophanage model are now moving to serve more young people in families. Learn now long-time providers in New York and California are adjusting thier services to better connect kids in child welfare with families.

Too Many Kids in U.S. Child Welfare Systems Not Living in Families

On any given night, about 57,000 children under the care of our nation’s child welfare systems are going to bed without the care and comfort of a family. In its latest KIDS COUNT policy report, Every Kid Needs a Family: Giving Children in the Child Welfare System the Best Chance for Success, the Foundation highlights this and other sobering statistics that point to the urgent need to ensure, through sound policies and proven practices, that everything possible is being done to find loving, nurturing and supported families to help raise more of these children.

Download New Report on Connecting Kids in Foster Care to Families

Download Every Kid Needs a Family: Giving Children in the Child Welfare System the Best Chance for Success, the latest KIDS COUNT Policy Report.

Atlanta Community Investment Fund Seeks 2015 Grant Applicants

Through the 2015 Atlanta Community Investment Fund, the Foundation provides small grants to organizations and resident networks.

Admitting Failure: Learning From Mistakes in Philanthropy

Admitting failures contributes to high-quality implementation, innovation of new strategies and improved governance and transparency. It’s good medicine that doesn’t always taste so good. Yet despite increasing philanthropic interest in mistakes and learning, many foundation staff still find it difficult to have conversations about mistakes.

Number of Kids in Foster Care Increases for First Time Since 2005

After a decade of steady decline, the number of children in foster care increased from 2012 to 2013. In 2013, there were approximately 402,000 children in the system.

Most Kids Exit Foster Care to Live with Parents, Relatives and Guardians

In 2013, a total of 238,547 children exited the foster care system. Two out of three (66%) of those exiting care were either reunified with their parents or primary caretakers, other relatives or guardians; and 21% were adopted.

Foundation President’s Statement on Freddie Gray Death

Following the death of Baltimore's Freddie Gray and community reaction, Patrick McCarthy, the Foundation's president & CEO, pledges to work with the city's youth, community leaders and nonprofits to better connect young people and their families to opportunity.