Improving the Well-Being of Young Parents Two recent reports funded by the Casey Foundation explore challenges faced by young parents, particularly mothers of color. The publications also share recommendations for how public systems and policy makers can enhance outcomes for these parents and their children. Read More
Trauma and Adolescent Development With Shantel Assata This session explores how trauma impacts adolescent development and introduces tactics to improve services and programs. Watch the webinar. Read More
Applications Sought for the 2023 Reimagining Juvenile Justice Training-for-Trainers Institute Applications are open for the 2023 Reimagining Juvenile Justice Training-for-Trainers Institute. Apply by June 2, 2023. Read More
Helping Young People in Foster Care Heal From Trauma and Build Resilience Growing up is hard. Growing up in foster care is even harder. A handout from the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, Healing Comes First, leverages what we know about adolescent brain development to help young people in foster care move from trauma to resilience. Read More
Sarah Hemminger on How to Create a Stronger Community for Young People In this episode of CaseyCast: Lisa Hamilton chats with Sarah Hemminger, the CEO of Thread, a Baltimore-based nonprofit devoted to building intentional and meaningful support networks for young people who are facing significant challenges. Read More
Thriving Families, Safer Children Embraces a Public Health Approach to System Reform A national initiative offering support to parents aims to help families avoid child welfare system involvement. Learn more about the approach. Read More
ARC Reflections: Trauma Training for Foster Parents and Caregivers Developed for child welfare agencies, a new skill-building curriculum to help foster parents, kin and other caregivers support children who have experienced trauma is now available. Read More
Webinar: How to Develop a Theory of Change A webinar on Aug. 24, 2022 will focus on helping organizations develop a theory of change. Read More
New Tool Measures Well-Being of Kids Served by Child Welfare Systems Casey partners with The Duke Endowment to develop and test the Treatment Outcome Package (TOP) assessment tool for child welfare systems. Read More
Youth Detention and the Pandemic Data from the Casey Foundation show gaps in youth detention by race and place have grown and widened since the COVID-19 pandemic. Download the analysis. Read More