Turning Brain “Strains” Into “Gains” for Adolescents in Foster Care A new video, “Promoting Brain Gains for Youth Emerging From Foster Care,” discusses adolescent brain development and ways child welfare systems inhibit or encourage opportunities for the successful transition to adulthood. Read More
Six Big City Mayors Lead Juvenile Justice Reform Efforts A new report funded by the Casey Foundation, Lessons Learned: Mayoral Leadership for Juvenile Justice Reform, chronicles the positive influence of mayoral leadership on juvenile justice reform in six U.S. cities. Read More
Jeff Edmondson on Getting Communities to Work Together to Get Results For the last 12 years, communities have called StriveTogether’s founder, Jeff Edmondson, to learn how they could improve their partnerships to better serve kids. This episode of CaseyCast explores what lessons Edmondson has learned along the way. Read More
Bringing Culture to Implementation: The Tribal REDI Pilot Study Researchers are partnering with tribal communities in South Dakota on a pilot program that introduces an evidence-based intervention for young children that also incorporates a strong cultural component. Read More
Our Children Are Watching: What Are We Teaching Them? What will it take to end racism, bigotry and ethnic hatred in America? Patrick McCarthy, Casey Foundation president & CEO, offers strategies to help children and youth embrace a more equitable and inclusive society. Read More
Rate of 2-Year-Olds Immunized Jumps 56% in Six Years August is National Immunization Awareness Month — and the latest immunization rates reported on the KIDS COUNT Data Center indicate that there’s cause to celebrate. That’s because 75% of 2-year-olds across the country were immunized in 2015. Read More
One in Five U.S. Kids Lives in a Food Insecure Home Nearly 15 million children — or 20% of all U.S. kids — lived in households that, at some point during 2014, did not have enough food for everyone in their home. Read More
Baltimore Youth Gain Summer Work Experience That Lasts a Lifetime In the summer of 2017 — thanks to a program supported by the Annie E. Casey Foundation — more than 8,000 young people in Baltimore had a chance to fill their idle summer months with employment experience and a paycheck. Read More
Because It Counts: Tools for Ensuring an Accurate 2020 Census As the 2020 U.S. census approaches, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights has produced a series of fact sheets and data tables to encourage an accurate record of people most often missed by the decennial count. Read More
What Is Implementation Science? Implementation science strives to understand the critical factors and conditions that ensure effective practices are successfully carried out and sustained in typical service settings. Read More
