Breaking the Cycle of Poverty by Helping Kids and Their Parents Succeed Educare Atlanta, the Center for Working Families and Dunbar Elementary School in southwest Atlanta are developing a strong, more closely aligned partnership to ensure parents and children succeed together. Read More
Get Georgia Reading Campaign Officially Kicks Off Get Georgia Reading — a statewide campaign to get all children on a path to reading on grade level by the end of third grade — officially launched at an August event that included First Lady Sandra Deal, as well as state commissioners, educators, parents, business leaders and children’s authors. Read More
Building Community Connections in Atlanta A new program launched this spring by local partners aims to increase networking opportunities for mothers in southwest Atlanta. Read More
Juvenile Justice Reforms in New Jersey Chronicled in Annie E. Casey Foundation Report A new report looks at how New Jersey adopted the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative statewide. Read More
New Study Offers Insights on Families Who Leave Housing Programs An Urban Institute study takes a closer look at what happens to families who leave housing assistance programs. Read More
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
