McCarthy Recognizes Key Source of Neighborhood Data In a speech to members of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, Foundation President and CEO Patrick McCarthy emphasized the importance of data in guiding decision making. His remarks underscored the essential role the partnership and its members play in providing reliable data and research in cities across the country. Read More
Bernalillo County Report Highlights 10 Years of Successful Reform Learn how a New Mexico town reduced its average daily detention population by almost half over a 10-year period, saving taxpayers $5 million. Read More
Why Parents Having Health Insurance is Good for American Families In the United States, the proportion of parents without health insurance has dropped 39% in just six years. Today, 11% of parents — 6.4 million men and women — are without health coverage. Read More
New Report: Young People in Foster Care on How States Can Remove Barriers to Normalcy In a Jim Casey Initiative report, young people from foster care provide recommendations for state child welfare agencies and policymakers that should help these youth achieve normalcy while in foster care. Read More
New Study Supports the Value of Evidence Reviews A new research article, published by Evaluation Review, focuses on the use of evidence reviews as a tool in helping planners and policymakers advance social science strategies and programs. Read More
Children in Immigrant Families Less Likely to Be Financially Secure Although they are more likely to have parents with full-time year-round employment, kids in immigrant families are more likely to live in low-income working families than their U.S.-born counterparts (37% vs. 22%). Read More
Atlanta Community Investment Fund Seeks 2014 Grant Applicants Through the 2014 Atlanta Community Investment Fund, the Foundation provides small grants to organizations and resident networks. Read More
Supporting Expectant and Parenting Youth in Foster Care and Their Children New York City and Sacramento County to implement comprehensive policies to address the needs of expectant and parenting youth in foster care and their children. Read More
Federal Case Study Highlights Early Childhood Education in the Atlanta Civic Site A new case study from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development describes the efforts of Casey's partners to help kids and families in southwest Atlanta thrive through a two-generation approach to early childhood education. Read More
Watch it: Patrick McCarthy on Casey’s Juvenile Justice Work At the 2016 National Conference of State Legislatures Legislative Summit, Annie E. Casey Foundation President and CEO Patrick McCarthy sat down for a short, videotaped interview to share his thoughts on the Foundation’s juvenile justice work. Read More
