I Was a Kid in Solitary Confinement At 16, Alyssa B. was sent to prison. Her story sheds light on what justice-involved youth truly need to change their lives. Read More
External Forces Affect Efforts to Serve Parents and Children Together Reports show how communities in Casey’s Family-Centered Community Change™ initiative address housing, education and transport to aid families. Read More
More Kids Lived in Single-Parent Families in 2013 In 2013, 35% of U.S. children (24.6 million) lived in single-parent families, according to new data on the KIDS COUNT Data Center. Read More
Partnering With Expectant and Parenting Youth to Strengthen Communities Authentic youth engagement helps shape better futures for foster youth by including voices of expectant and parenting young people. Learn more. Read More
Bringing Culture to Implementation: The Tribal REDI Pilot Study Researchers are partnering with tribal communities in South Dakota on a pilot program that introduces an evidence-based intervention for young children that also incorporates a strong cultural component. Read More
Better Family Life and MILPA Earn Casey’s 2019 Gloria J. Jenkins Award The Casey Foundation honors Better Family Life, Inc., and MILPA Collective with its 2019 Gloria J. Jenkins Award, for their juvenile justice reform work. Read More
Webinars on Family-Engaged Case Planning in Youth Probation A webinar series helps juvenile probation staff implement a family-engaged case planning model. Learn about the series. Read More
More Than One in Five U.S. Kids Has Had Multiple Adverse Experiences In 2015-2016, 22% of children in the United States — more than 15.6 million kids total — report experiencing two or more adverse experiences. Read More
Casey Helps Students Get Frontline Experience Working in Juvenile Justice Policy and Advocacy This summer, thanks to a program supported by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Florida interned with national juvenile justice policy and advocacy organizations. All five students who completed the program worked on the frontlines — and on the national stage — in the fields of juvenile justice advocacy and reform. Read More
Lessons From New York City’s Efforts to Close Youth Prisons A new Casey case study shows how New York’s youth justice reforms offer lessons for others replacing incarceration with community-based support. Read More
