Ohio JDAI Collaborative Expands Representation to Detention Hearings Ohio JDAI reforms ensure that detained youth in their counties are represented by counsel. Read More
Sparking Meaningful Dialogue on Race and Opportunity in America The Casey Foundation recently hosted a forum devoted to discussing the role of race in determining a child’s path to success. This event was in direct response to widening racial divides—and ensuing civic turmoil—in Ferguson, Mo., Charleston, S.C., and Baltimore. Read More
Year-End Giving Tips for Year-Round Impact The High Impact Year-End Giving Guide can help individuals as well as organizations with due diligence on their end-of-year charitable giving. The guide — developed by the Center for High Impact Philanthropy — presents good opportunities, free resources and global suggestions for securing the most impact from your philanthropic dollars. Read More
American Indian and African American Kids More Likely to Experience Multiple Adverse Events This post reports on kids experiencing multiple adverse events and dissects the data by race and ethnicity. Read which kids are most at risk. Read More
McCarthy: “Let Us Be the Leaders Who Witness the Closing of the Last Training School” Annie E. Casey Foundation President and CEO Patrick McCarthy delivered the keynote address at the 2010 Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative Inter-site Conference. Read More
New Resources: Developing an Infrastructure for Two-Generation Work During a webinar on July 6, the Casey Foundation released a new brief that examines how seven sites across the country are evolving, at an operational level, to address parent and child needs at the same time. Read More
The Center for Working Families Launches Green Works Program The Center for Working Families, Inc. reports on the early progress of its Green Works program, an Atlanta effort to provide job seekers with marketable skills in environmental remediation and green industrial jobs. Read More
Promise in EastPoint: New Videos Spotlight San Antonio Community and Its Families Two new videos spotlight San Antonio's EastPoint community, where Casey has partnered with a local community development initiative working to transform the neighborhood into a better place for kids and families to live, work and grow. Read More
The Growing Role of Public Assistance in Childhood From 2005 to 2017, 46 states saw an uptick in the share of kids whose families received public assistance. Learn which states were outliers. Read More