Blog Archive

Webinar: Learn About Strategic Financing for Tested, Effective Programs

Join the Foundation at 2 p.m. ET, Thursday, Oct. 13, for the latest webinar in the Using What Works webinar series. Strategic Financing for Tested, Effective Programs will highlight financing tools and strategies from Casey’s Evidence2Success framework.

Federal Grant Gives Evidence2Success Efforts in Utah a Boost

The Kearns Community Coalition, which is implementing the Casey Foundation's Evidence2Success framework in Salt Lake County, Utah, has received a major boost: a five-year, $625,000 grant from the Office of National Drug Control to curb alcohol and e-cigarette use among teens.

Policy Wins Help Strengthen Georgia’s Families and Economy

With support from the Casey Foundation, a Ga. nonprofit has helped secure key legislative changes to strengthen the state’s workforce and promote equity.

Iowa Celebrates Attendance Awareness Month

Up, Up, and Attend is a super-hero themed attendance awareness campaign that is being used in Grade-Level Reading (GLR) communities throughout the U.S.

Building the Evidence Base to Support Promising Programs

Casey invests in expanding the use of evidence-based programs within the child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health, health and education systems.

Educational Attainment Data Encouraging

More Americans are earning degrees, aided by federal funds. In 2012, 33% of young adults had a bachelor’s or higher, up 2.5 million since 2000. Read more.

Abuses Show Danger and Ineffectiveness of Residential Confinement for Youth

New revelations of abusive treatment of youth have surfaced in residential facilities in Florida, Iowa and Kentucky, providing further evidence that our residential confinement model for young people isn’t working and must be rethought.

Celebrating Gains, Redoubling Efforts To Address Pregnancy and Parenting Among Youth in Foster Care

During the past five years, more than 25 states have started working to stem the rate of teen pregnancies among young people in foster care. This month — which marks Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month and National Foster Care Month — provides an opportunity to recognize steady progress and redouble the effort to build on and sustain the movement.