Podcast Archive

Helping Babies Thrive in Baltimore

In response to a record-high infant mortality rate, Baltimore launched B’More for Healthy Babies to improve family health across the city. Learn more.

Foster Care Alums Weigh In: Building a Better Exit Plan

Lisa Hamilton of the Casey Foundation spoke with two women about their foster care journeys and how the system could better support smoother exits.

Results-Based Leadership Development Helps Promise Neighborhoods Deliver Results in Mississippi

For four years, the Casey Foundation has supported nine Promise Neighborhoods with results-based leadership to help kids succeed from cradle to career.

Year One of the Rural IMPACT Project

Officials and service providers met at the White House to discuss Rural IMPACT, a joint effort to reduce child poverty in rural and tribal communities.

Serving Immigrant Families Through Two-Generation Programs

Identifying Family Needs and Responsive Program Approaches

This report shares key facts about immigrant parents with young children and examines 11 programs that have successfully served immigrant and refugee families using a two-generation approach. Readers will learn about the difficulties these programs face, what they are doing well, and what policymakers and community stakeholders need to know to support this vulnerable — and growing — demographic.

Reentry and Barriers to Employment

Lessons From Casey’s Investments

This report covers the challenging terrains of incarceration, reentry and work. It draws on expert interviews, dozens of resources and two decades of strategic investments by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Readers will learn what employment barriers people commonly face after exiting prison or jail and how to help these individuals pursue — and maintain — family-supporting jobs.

An SEA Guide for Identifying Evidence-Based Interventions for School Improvement

This guide is designed to help State Education Agencies (SEAs) conduct self-studies to identify interventions that may be implemented in schools needing improvement or that require comprehensive or targeted support. The interventions selected should be those that are most relevant and appropriate based on the needs of schools, with the strongest evidence base possible under the Every Student Succeeds Act.

An SEA Quick-Start Guide for Identifying Evidence-Based Interventions for School Improvement

The quick-start guide provides a brief overview of the self-study process which is described in more detail in the full State Education Agencies (SEAs) Guide for Identifying Evidence-Based Interventions for School Improvement. This process helps SEAs to identify appropriate and relevant interventions that may be implemented in schools requiring comprehensive or targeted support.

New Report Shows How Public Agencies Can Transform Foster Parenting

A new Casey Foundation report explores how public agencies can enlist more individuals and families to become foster parents — and encourage those who now serve to continue their extraordinary commitment.

A Movement to Transform Foster Parenting

This report explores how public agencies can get more people to step forward as foster parents and to encourage the extraordinary individuals who have already answered the call to continue their commitment to care.