Podcast Archive

Five Questions with Leslie Boissiere on the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading

Leslie Boissiere, chief operating officer of the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading, talks about the movement by communities to get kids reading proficiently by the end of third grade.

LEAP Turns One: A Year In Review

Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential (LEAP) turned one in September 2017. Casey checks in on the initiative’s early results and finds that there’s plenty to celebrate.

Baltimore’s Digital Equity Fund Is Bringing City Residents Online

The Digital Equity Fund empowers Baltimore residents by funding programs that improve internet access, digital skills and tech opportunities. Learn more.

Five Steps to Hiring and Retaining Frontline Child Welfare Staff

A new Casey guide helps child welfare leaders improve hiring and retention to ensure kids and families are safe, stable and supported.

Upcoming Webinar: Identifying Community Priorities for Child Well-Being

Join the Casey Foundation for Identifying Community Priorities for Child Well-Being, part of the Using What Works to Improve Child Well-Being webinar series, at 1 p.m. ET, Thursday, July 21. This free webinar requires registration.

Deepening Intergenerational Partnerships in Community Work

An Instagram Live conversation explores how an intergenerational learning collaborative is strengthening youth-adult partnerships. Watch the video.

Child Welfare “Hackathon” Yields Ideas, Collaboration and Momentum

For 24 hours on May 26-27, engineers, scientists, practitioners and young people tackled the foster care’s toughest problems during the first ever White House “hackathon” focused on child welfare. The event centered on the design and development of software prototypes and creating a much-needed shift in the conversation about using technology to contribute to the well-being of children and families.

Breaking the Cycle of Poverty by Helping Kids and Their Parents Succeed

Educare Atlanta, the Center for Working Families and Dunbar Elementary School in southwest Atlanta are developing a strong, more closely aligned partnership to ensure parents and children succeed together.

TST-FC: Helping Children in Foster Care Manage Their Feelings and Behavior

When a child who has experienced trauma melts down emotionally, kin and foster caregivers can struggle to identify triggers and help them calm down. The ramifications of this can be devastating. Enter a powerful new tool, Trauma Systems Therapy for Foster Care (TST-FC), that aims to help caregivers meet the needs of kids and teenagers who have experienced trauma.