The Affordable Care Act Implications for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, youth transitioning out of foster care can now receive Medicaid coverage up to age 26. This brief highlights the policy change and shares seven ways that states and agencies can work to improve both health insurance access and health outcomes among recent foster care alums. Read More
Infant Mortality Rate at Historic Low The rate of infant mortality has dropped 34% since 1990 in the United States. This proves to be an all-time low in the country. Read More
Members of the 2013-2014 Children and Family Fellowship Sixteen leaders from across the country have been named to the 2013-2014 class of the Children and Family Fellowship. Read More
20th-Anniversary Children and Family Fellowship Class Announced Sixteen children and family services leaders will work toward community and system reform. Read More
Child Maltreatment Rates Increase In 2011, approximately 663,000 children experienced maltreatment, with younger children being included in this group at an increasing rate. Read More
Case Planning for Healthy Development This issue brief shares a framework for front line workers to use in case planning. The framework uses sustainable social capital and a stable sense of self to help support the healthy development of young people in foster care. It is a product of the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative. Read More
Community Change: Lessons from Making Connections This report summarizes six key lessons that emerged from the Foundation’s Making Connections initiative and their implications for Casey’s future community change work. Read More
Reviewing State Housing Policy with a Child-Centered Lens Opportunities for Engagement and Intervention This report uses Casey’s Poverty, Permanence and Place framework to analyze state housing policy and its ability to help impoverished families. Read More
Latest Results Report Show Significant Site Progress JDAI sites report progress yearly, showing reduced detention use, improved public safety and fewer youth sent to state facilities. Learn more. Read More
More Children in Foster Care Raised by Relatives in 2011 Data in recent years show that the percentage of children not living with their parents continues to rise. Read More
