Patrick McCarthy on the Increasing Struggles of America's Working Families In 2012, Casey Foundation President Patrick McCarthy urged greater awareness of disadvantaged children at the Spotlight on Poverty forum. Read More
Lifelong Families Case Practice Standards Manual Training Manual This policy and procedures manual for social workers delineates how Casey incorporated family strengthening and permanency planning into all aspects of its child welfare practice framework – assessments, assignments, planning, placement, decision making, teaming, referrals. Read More
Achieving Permanency Through Guardianship Training The Permanency Continuum Series This training for social workers focuses on finding a permanent family for foster care kids through guardianship. Read More
Lifelong Families Permanency Case Practice Tools This set of practice tools offers guidance through questions, surveys, inventories and examples for helping social workers and supervisors understand and organize the case factors affecting permanency for a foster child. Read More
Guide to Fidelity Measurement for the Lifelong Families Model This toolkit contains inventories and forms used to measure fidelity when applying the principles of Lifelong Families, a foster care practice model. Read More
Achieving Permanency Through Reunification Training The Permanency Continuum Series, Lifelong Families Model This 2-day child welfare training focuses specifically on deepening social worker skills for reuniting kids in foster care with their birth families when that option is in the best interest of the kids. Read More
Casey Partners with First Focus to Create State Policy Advocacy and Reform Center for Child Welfare The Casey Foundation is creating a nonpartisan center to support policy advocates in reforming child welfare systems for children and families. Read More
Bringing Promise to Washington, D.C. The DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative Working with partners ranging from residents to businesses to schools to assistance agencies, this Washington, D.C. collaborative is establishing the groundwork to keep kids healthy and in school from cradle to college. Read More
More Than a Job Final Results from the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Transitional Jobs Program This report outlines and evaluates the results of the Center for Employment Opportunity program, which aims to help former prisoners improve their job prospects and reduce the chances of landing back in jail. Read More
Lifelong Families and Replication Manual Trainings: Train the Trainers Training Manual This complete 2-day training program prepares future trainers to teach the child welfare Lifelong Families practice model and the Replication Manual training. Read More
