Disparities Persist Among Young People Residing in Juvenile Justice Facilities in 2017 The juvenile justice system lost youth through 2017, but certain racial and ethnic groups remain overrepresented. Learn more about these youth. Read More
Webinar Highlights 10 Practices of High-Performing Child Welfare Agencies In February, the Child Welfare Strategy Group launched a three-part webinar series devoted to building high-performance child welfare agencies. Read More
FosterClub Offers Youth Perspective on March CaseyChat The Casey Foundation and FosterClub Executive Celeste Bodner teamed up for a Twitter chat on foster parenting. Delve into the conversation. Read More
Expanding the Bench Makes a Move The Casey Foundation has tapped Change Matrix to take the helm of two Expanding the Bench efforts aimed at increasing diversity in research and evaluation. Read More
Analysis of Asian and Latino Subgroups Finds Additional Barriers to Success According to the new Race for Results Index from the Annie E. Casey Fondation, there are clear differences in the extent of barriers to success among subgroups of Asian and Latino children in the United States. Read More
New Report: KIDS COUNT Shows Value of Long-Term Philanthropic Investment For more than 25 years, KIDS COUNT has been the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s flagship investment for providing public officials and child advocates with data, tools and policy recommendations to improve outcomes for vulnerable children.A new report tells the story of how a single data book documenting measures of child well-being tranformed into a mission-critical vehicle for building bipartisan support for proven solutions and policy change. Read More
Casey Shares Insights From its Journey Toward Racial and Ethnic Equity and Inclusion Casey Foundation employees learned that their staff had transformed, in less than a decade, from a workforce that was 60% white to one that was nearly 60% people of color. A new document, Operationalizing Equity, examines how this evolution unfolded. Read More
Webinar Series Reimagines Diversion From Juvenile Court The Casey Foundation’s webinar series explores diverting more youth from court — reducing system involvement — especially for youth of color. Read More
One Baltimore for Jobs Strengthens Local Workforce Systems One Baltimore for Jobs, an initiative supported by the Casey Foundation, has helped hundreds of young adults from disinvested city neighborhoods get jobs in construction, health care, transportation and other high-growth industries. Read More
Report: Philanthropy Must Invest in Grassroots Movements in Atlanta Grassroots organizations are partnering with resident leaders to address Atlanta’s persistent racial wealth gap and expand opportunities for its immigrant, black and LGBTQ communities. But philanthropy must do more to help ensure these organizations thrive, according to a new report Read More
