Podcast Archive

Building Successful Resource Families Practice Guide

A Guide for Public Agencies

This guide shares how to recruit, train and support resource families, offering tools and best practices backed by the Casey Foundation.

D.C.'s Achievement Gap: Why Place Matters

D.C. KIDS COUNT Data Snapshot

This D.C. KIDS COUNT Data Snapshot examines citywide achievement by the public school kids in Washington, D.C.

How Evaluation Supports Learning

A Case Study Describing Resource Media's Use of a Learning Circle

This case study shows how Learning Circles can spark data-driven conversations that support better decisions and organizational improvement.

Data Snapshot on High-Poverty Communities

Children Living in America's High-Poverty Communities

New KIDS COUNT data show a 25% rise since 2000 in children living in areas of concentrated poverty, with trends across national, state and city levels.

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.

Lifelong Families Case Practice Standards Manual

Training Manual

This manual shows how Casey integrated family support and permanency planning into child welfare practice, including assessment, placement and referrals.

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.

Lifelong Families Permanency Case Practice Tools

Practice tools offer surveys, questions and examples to help social workers assess and organize factors impacting foster care permanency. Learn 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.

Achieving Permanency Through Reunification Training

The Permanency Continuum Series, Lifelong Families Model

This child welfare training deepens social worker skills for reuniting kids in foster care with their families — when that option is best for the kids.