Leadership Program Helps Health Advocates Connect More Kids and Families to Medicaid Graduates from the Children’s Health Leadership Network helped improve Medicaid in four states during their 12-month program. Learn more. Read More
Cheryl Washington on Rebuilding East Baltimore and its Future Lisa Hamilton and Cheryl Washington discuss Baltimore’s urban renewal and how residents helped shape the project and its impact. Read More
Helping Kids of Equal Talent Grow Into Equally Successful Students and Adults Kids can succeed despite early struggles, but lack of support harms those in low-income areas, per a Casey Foundation report. Learn more. Read More
Seven Sites Selected for Juvenile Probation Certificate Program With Georgetown University As part of the Transforming Juvenile Probation Certificate Program, teams from seven sites gathered in D.C. to learn about transforming juvenile probation. Read More
Evaluation Finds Casey Effort to Enhance Child Welfare Investigative Decision Making is on the Right Track On the Frontline helps child welfare staff make better decisions, with insights from two counties in Ohio and Colorado since 2015. Read more. Read More
Evaluation of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s On the Frontline Initiative On the Frontline, an initiative of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, aims to help caseworkers and their supervisors make better investigative decisions about protecting children and strengthening families. This evaluation examines the experiences of child welfare agencies in two counties — one in Ohio and the other in Colorado — that began implementing the initiative in 2015. Read More
Team Decision Making: Key Resources for Assessing Child Risk and Safety Team Decision Making helps child welfare agencies decide if children should stay with parents — an approach Casey has refined for over 20 years. Read More
Listening to Black Women and Girls Lived Experiences of Adultification Bias This report shares insights and recommendations related to adultification bias — the perception that black girls are less innocent and more adult-like than their white peers of the same age. Learn more now. Read More
The Color of Justice The Landscape of Traumatic Justice This report explores how psychology and America’s mental health system — including shortcomings in prevention, early intervention and treatment programs — contribute to the over-representation of youth of color in the juvenile justice landscape. Read More
Shrinking Share of Young Kids Living in Economic Distress in 2017 The number and percentage of young children living at or below 200% of the federal poverty level continues to fall. Read more about this progress. Read More