Podcast Archive

How Human Services Programs and Their Clients Can Benefit from National Health Reform Legislation

This report explores the ways in which implementation of the Affordable Care Act enables agencies serving low-income households to streamline and modernize their own systems in order to ensure families are accessing all the services for which they are eligible.

The Working Poor Families Project

Strengthening Workplace Education Program Policies to Enable Low-Wage Workers' Advancement

This policy brief revisits a few programs covered in an earlier report on workplace education programs, and highlights other programs that improve basic skills, literacy and english language skills.

A Doctor When We Need One

Access to Healthcare in Wisconsin for Immigrant Children and Families

From flu shots to school physicals, basic medical care is vital to growing up healthy. Yet, for immigrant families, the hurdles to health care can be steep. This policy brief is set in Wisconsin but packed with statistics, stories and solutions that cross all geographic boundaries. Its main message? We must do more to connect America’s immigrant families with quality, timely medical care — and here’s how.

Resolution, Reinvestment, and Realignment

Three Strategies for Changing Juvenile Justice

This report reviews the history and development of three juvenile justice reform strategies and analyzes their impact on policy, practice and public safety.

Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth

Outcomes at Age 26

This report, a product of the Midwest Study, analyzes how former foster care youth are faring at age 26. It reviews survey results on a wide range of issues — everything from employment records and academic experiences to family relationships and pregnancy rates.

Recession Increases Number of Children Living in Low-Income Families by 7% to 31 Million

According to the Casey Foundation's 2011 KIDS COUNT Data Book, the last decade has seen a decline in economic well-being for low-income kids and families.

Faith in Communities

The Casey Foundation helps faith-based organizations, like the Providence In-town Churches Association Food Pantry, expand their community service efforts.

Nurturing Healthy Relationships Among Young Adults

Learn about "Love Notes," a YouthBuild, Casey-supported program that steers youth away from unhealthy relationships before marriage or parenthood.

Rental Market Stresses

Impacts of the Great Recession on Affordability and Multifamily Lending

Despite record-high vacancy rates and falling rents in some areas, the Great Recession did little to halt the long-term erosion of rental housing affordability. The number of financially stressed renters has expanded, while affordable housing available to these households has shrunk.