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Reports, case studies and more from the Casey Foundation and its partners.

2025 KIDS COUNT Data Book

The 36th edition of the KIDS COUNT Data Book highlights steady gains in some areas, setbacks in others and ongoing opportunities to better support children and families.

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2024 Annual Results Report

Powerful stories from young people, families and advocates driving change in their communities underscore that lasting solutions come from those closest to the challenges.

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Fostering Youth Transitions 2023

An examination of the experiences of young people in foster care and how child welfare systems help them transition to adulthood.

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Our Publications Series

The Casey Foundation occasionally releases its reports and tools as part of a series or collection.

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Operationalizing Equity

This report looks at the Casey Foundation’s decades-long journey to promote race equity and inclusion. Learn how Casey embedded equity principles in its operations.

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Improving Community Safety Through Public Health Strategies

July 20, 2021

Casey’s community safety investments are built on the belief that gun violence is a public health epidemic that must be addressed with preventive measures developed with input...

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Developing Two-Generation Approaches in Communities

July 14, 2021

This report is the product of a seven-year formative evaluation of the Casey Foundation’s Family-Centered Community Change (FCCC) initiative. The Urban Institute followed the...

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The 20201 KIDS COUNT Data Book Now Available

2021 KIDS COUNT Data Book

June 21, 2021

The Casey Foundation's 2021 KIDS COUNT Data Book provides findings on child well-being to guide policymakers, researchers and advocates in their work.

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Transforming Juvenile Probation

April 27, 2021

Juvenile probation term lengths should be only as long as is necessary to connect youth with any needed support and services in their communities and should be designed to...

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Serving Youth Remotely

April 19, 2021

This resource guide shares ways that organizations are delivering education, training, employment and mental health services to young people. It also singles out efforts aimed...

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Reducing Structural Barriers to School and Work for People With Juvenile Records

March 29, 2021

This report shares how state policymakers can help dismantle education- and employment-related barriers for people with juvenile records.

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Funding Prevention in Communities

February 24, 2021

This report aims to help community coalitions fund and sustain evidence-based prevention programs to achieve large-scale outcomes. Learn about the successes, challenges and...

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Developing Supportive Educational and Career Pathways for Young People

January 1, 2021

This report highlights strategies to create equitable, youth-centered pathways to education and career success for at-risk youth. Learn more.

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Strengthening Research Through Participatory Methods

January 1, 2021

Researchers partnered with 10 young LEAP participants to strengthen a study of how to help youth progress in school and work. Read the findings.

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