Using Congregate Care What the Evidence Tells Us This report focuses on kids entering group settings for their first child welfare placement. It explores how likely this placement is, how long and stable it is, and how often it results in achieving permanence or a return to out-of-home care. Read More
The Complete Guide to Self-Advocacy for LGBQ+ Youth Ages 14-21 And Other Important Stuff to Remember This publication serves as a reentry guide for LGBTQ youth, ages 14-21, exiting the juvenile justice system. It offers tips, resources and short exercises to help young people build essential life skills. Read More
Funding Effective Implementation of Evidence-Based Programs in Child Welfare This brief shares eight strategies to help child welfare agency administrators and partners fund and sustain evidence-based programs that benefit children and families. These strategies — presented in the context of a stage-based framework — consider the costs, funding streams, partnerships and allocation of resources that are both specific to child welfare systems and necessary for effective implementation. Read More
When a Parent is Incarcerated A Primer for Social Workers Parenting from jail can be difficult without some help from assigned social workers. Read More
The Latinx Data Gap in the Youth Justice System This report examines racial and ethnic data at state-level youth justice agencies. It documents inconsistent data categories and reporting practices among Hispanic and Latino youth. Read to find recommendations aimed at improving juvenile justice data. Read More
Keys to Your Financial Future Facilitator Guides This guide helps facilitators administer a curriculum aimed at strengthening the financial literacy and independence of young people who have experienced foster care. Read More
Data Snapshot on High-Poverty Communities Children Living in America's High-Poverty Communities This data snapshot highlights newly available national, state and city data in the KIDS COUNT Data Center that shows a 25% increase in the number of children residing in areas of concentrated poverty since 2000. Read More
Aging Out of Foster Care in America This two-page infographic highlights the steep consequences of stopping foster care at 18 and offers a promising solution: extend high-quality, developmentally-appropriate services to age 21. It is a product of Success Beyond 18, a national campaign by the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative aimed at forging a better path for youth who are exiting foster care and entering adulthood. Read More
Mentoring Formerly Incarcerated Adults Insights from the Ready4Work Reentry Initiative This report tells how the Ready4Work program, which aims to ease an ex-prisoner’s transition home, added a mentoring component to its suite of reentry support services. Readers will learn how 11 sites packaged this new component, who participated and what initial outcomes say about mentoring’s capacity for improving the lives of former inmates. Read More
Expectant and Parenting Youth in Foster Care Systems Leaders Data Tool Kit This tool kit, created by the Annie E. Casey Foundation with help from the Center for the Study of Social Policy and more than 20 national experts, assists systems leaders in gathering, assessing, sharing and leveraging data on expectant and parenting youth in foster care. The end goal? A better, brighter future for these families. Read More