End Games: The Challenge of Sustainability This report explores how funders and grantees think about sustainability, and how to best support promising projects for post-grant sustainability. Read More
Structural Racism and Community Building Race as an underlying, invisible barrier to true equality in the United States is examined and explained. Read More
When Child Welfare Works: A Working Paper A Proposal to Finance Best Practices This report discusses the federal financing policy changes needed to make permanence an affordable priority for state child welfare agencies. Read More
Bernalillo County Mental Health Clinic Case Study A Guide to Juvenile Detention Reform #6 This JDAI Practice Guide highlights the mental health needs of juvenile detainees and how one site in New Mexico met those needs. Read More
Upside Down The $400 Billion Federal Asset-Building Budget Despite millions spent on asset building in 2009, this report shows how tax code subsidies mainly benefited the wealthy. Read More
Back-to-School Action Guide Reengaging Students and Closing the School-to-Prison Pipeline A guide to using federal pandemic relief funds to rethink K–12 education and close the school-to-prison pipeline. Learn more now. Read More
The Dangers of Detention The Impact of Incarcerating Youth in Detention and Other Secure Facilities This brief looks at the consequences of detention on kids and communities and the positive results from Casey’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative. Read More
Beyond Bars Keeping Young People Safe at Home and Out of Youth Prisons This report outlines how to replace youth prisons with community-based services that hold kids accountable and build on their strengths and belonging. Read More
Engaging and Supporting Kinship Caregivers Part Four of Family Ties: Analysis From a State-By-State Survey of Kinship Care Policies Learn what states are doing — and where they can do more — to engage and support kin caregivers when a child enters foster care. Read More
Social Capital: Issue Brief #2 Building Quality Networks for Young People in Foster Care This brief explains how social capital impacts foster youth development and is part of the Jim Casey Youth Initiative’s series on youth engagement. Read More
