Critical Investments Should Target the First Eight Years of Life, Report Finds Casey’s KIDS COUNT report shows the importance of early investment in child development for future success in language and cognitive skills. Read More
Grade-Level Reading Communities Tell Their Stories Madison County, New York participated in the Tell Our Story project, describing their challenges, accomplishments and plans as a rural community. Read More
New Futures Our first large, community-based project, New Futures was launched in 1988 to test the idea that strong political leadership, interagency collaboration and other innovations could reduce teen pregnancy and school dropout rates and improve school achievement and youth employment rates over a five-year period. What we learned has informed nearly every initiative that has followed. Read More
New Proposal Calls for Return on Investment in Federal Child Welfare Financing The Casey Foundation and the Jim Casey Initiative proposed federal funding reforms to improve child welfare practices at a Capitol Hill briefing. Read More
When Child Welfare Works: A Working Paper A Proposal to Finance Best Practices This report discusses the federal financing policy changes needed to make permanence an affordable priority for state child welfare agencies. Read More
Summary of Recommendations for Federal Child Welfare Financing This handout summarizes policy recommendations for realigning federal child welfare financing to support best practices in four key areas. Read More
How to Fund Best Practices in Child Welfare Tracey Field and Patrick McCarthy discussed policy recommendations to support best practices in child welfare at a 2013 briefing on Capitol Hill. Read More
Educational Attainment Data Encouraging More Americans are earning degrees, aided by federal funds. In 2012, 33% of young adults had a bachelor’s or higher, up 2.5 million since 2000. Read more. Read More
