Study Examines Child Welfare Experiences That Begin With Group Care This post focuses on kids entering group settings for their first child welfare placement. It covers a study that explores how likely this placement is, how long and stable it is, and how often it results in achieving permanence or a return to out-of-home care. Read More
What Are Community Schools? Community schools, which take a holistic approach to supporting young people and their families, are often better equipped to tackle barriers faced by traditional schools, such as a lack of resources and chronic absenteeism. Read More
New Digital Data Locker May Help People Find Stable Housing A new program in Baltimore allows people dealing with housing insecurity to store digital copies of vital documents — and share them electronically — as they work to secure stable housing. Read More
LEAP Fellows Continue Focus on Youth Engagement and Leadership Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential initiative named its second cohort of fellows, who will use their community service and peer engagement experience to build leadership opportunities for young people. Read More
Atlanta’s Pittsburgh Yards Opens With Community Celebration The community celebrated the official opening of Pittsburgh Yards, a commercial development in Southwest Atlanta focused on entrepreneurship. Read More
With Pandemic Relief Set to Expire, Casey Foundation Urges Permanent Foster Care Reforms With a national moratorium on youth aging out of foster care set to expire on Sept. 30, 2021, a new policy brief calls on policymakers to help young people thrive as they move into adulthood. Read More
New Child Poverty Data Illustrate the Powerful Impact of America’s Safety Net Programs The U.S. Census Bureau has released the official poverty measure and 2020 Supplemental Poverty Measure. These numbers provide an early look at how the pandemic has impacted life — and childhood — across the country. Read More
Using Storytelling to Help More Baltimoreans Get Jobs In Baltimore City, the storytelling campaign, Work.Better.Together, aims to create a more equitable workforce system — one that affords all residents the dignity of work and hope for the future. Read More
New Research Series Examines Roots of Racial Inequities in Child and Family Well-Being The Annie E. Casey Foundation and Conrad N. Hilton Foundation are supporting a new research series, called Elevating Equity, that aims to advance racial equity for American families of color. Read More
State Fact Sheets: How Are Families Using the Child Tax Credit? New state fact sheets show how families making less than $150,000 a year used expanded child tax credit payments between July 21 and August 16, 2021 Read More
