Pandemic Learning Loss and COVID-19: Education Impacts Learn about the negative impact of COVID-19 on education. Explore key findings on learning loss resulting from the pandemic today. Read More
Nearly Six Million Kids Are Impacted by Parental Incarceration Close to six million kids in America have experienced losing a parent to prison or jail. Read More
Resources for Foster Parents A collection of 10 online resources designed to help foster parents succeed. Read More
How Youth Incarceration Undermines Public Safety A report shows that incarceration has damaging effects on young people, leading to higher rates of rearrest — and undermining public safety. Read More
Child Food Insecurity in America Learn about child hunger statistics in the United States with AECF. Explore how food insecurity and hunger affect child development and overall health. Read More
Poverty Talk: Basic Terms You Need to Know Now Experts talk about poverty in various ways. This post explains some of the most common terms used to describe poverty in the United States today. Read More
Foundation Welcomes Twelfth Class of Children and Family Fellows The Casey Foundation has selected 15 leaders for the twelfth class of its Children and Family Fellowship. Read who is in the new class. Read More
"Data Walk" Is a Key Tool in Results-Based Leadership A new Casey Foundation video highlights the use of data walks as a results-based leadership tool that can build stakeholder relationships and assess data while accelerating the process to improve outcomes for families and children. Read More
Study: Pretrial Juvenile Detention Increases Odds of Felony Recidivism by 33% Jurisdictions use pretrial confinement to ensure that young people who have been accused of an offense attend court hearings. Yet, a stay in pretrial juvenile detention increases a young person's likelihood of felony recidivism by 33% and misdemeanor recidivism by 11%. Read the new study. Read More
Maryland Enacts Sweeping Youth Justice Reforms Maryland lawmakers have passed a series of wide-ranging reforms that aim to position young people with justice-system involvement for long-term success. Read More