Housing Instability for Young People and Families: New Data, Longstanding Inequities The Casey Foundation is committed to leveraging its resources and relationships toward advancing housing equity and improving outcomes for kids and families. Read to learn more. Read More
How to Fund Best Practices in Child Welfare Policy recommendations designed to transform federal funding to support best practices in child welfare were the focus of this presentation delivered by Tracey Feild and Patrick McCarthy at an October 23, 2013, briefing on Capitol Hill. Read More
Foundation Seeks Proposals for Juvenile Justice Reform Projects Led by Young People The Casey Foundation seeks proposals for projects that address youth justice reform led by youth with prior justice system involvement. Apply now. Read More
New Casey Report Recommends Policies to Help Millions of Children With Incarcerated Parents More than 5.1 million U.S. kids have a parent who has served time. In a new report, A Shared Sentence: The Devastating Toll of Parental Incarceration on Kids, Families and Communities, the Annie E. Casey Foundation recommended policy reforms that would help millions of children who struggle with emotional and financial instability as a result of having an incarcerated parent. Read More
Five Ways Child Welfare Agencies Can Empower Young People The Annie E. Casey Foundation and young people with experience in foster care identify five ways that child welfare leaders can help empower the youth they serve. Read More
South Carolina Moves to Strengthen Extended Foster Care There’s a new law in South Carolina — one that aims to help young people make a smoother, more successful leap from foster care to adulthood. Read More
The Number of Youth in Secure Detention Returns to Pre-Pandemic Levels A survey of youth justice agencies finds that the drop in youth detention that accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic has evaporated. Read More
Judge William Thorne on the History and Healing of American Indian Families Lisa Hamilton interviews William Thorne Jr., a member of the Pomo and Coast Miwok Indian tribes and a retired juvenile justice judge with 34 years of experience in tribal and state courts. Their conversation explores how past federal policies have harmed American Indian children and what these communities are doing to help their own families heal. Read More
CaseyCast Podcast Tackles a Silent Issue: Parental Incarceration In this episode of CaseyCast, the Foundation’s Lisa Hamilton enlists social worker Tanya Krupat to discuss the stigmas, struggles and solutions shaping the lives of kids who have experienced parental incarceration. Read More
Aiding Youth-Serving Organizations in Pursuing Racial Equity Youth-serving organizations looking to identify and address programmatic barriers that are holding back young people of color have a new resource on hand, courtesy of the research nonprofit Child Trends and a paper funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Read More
