B’more for Healthy Babies A Collaborative Funding Model to Reduce Infant Mortality in Baltimore After nearly a decade of work, the B’more for Healthy Babies initiative has helped to reduce infant mortality and improve the lives of thousands of parents and children in Baltimore. Central to its success? A funding approach, called collective impact. Read More
No Place for Kids Issue Brief The Case for Reducing Juvenile Incarceration This issue brief summarizes a report which assembles decades of research as well as persuasive new data to demonstrate that America’s heavy reliance on juvenile incarceration has not paid off and, in fact, is a failed strategy for combating youth crime. Read More
Kinship Care When Parents are Incarcerated What We Know, What We Can Do This paper explores the role of kinship care for children of parents currently incarcerated; examining the involvement of the child welfare system, and describing what can be done to develop more compassionate social policies and programs geared toward this population. Read More
The 2009 KIDS COUNT Data Book State Profiles of Child Well-Being This 20th annual KIDS COUNT Data Book provides national and state-by-state information on the conditions of America’s children and families. The 2009 Data Book essay calls for improvements to the nation’s ability to design and evaluate programs aimed at the needs of children and families living in poverty. Read More
User's Guide to Essential Kinship Data This brief guide identifies the types of data child welfare agencies should collect to track their progress in placing children who cannot return home to their families with kin. Read More
Community Benefits Agreements: The Power, Practice, and Promise of a Responsible Redevelopment Tool The Casey Foundation convened experts on both sides of the redevelopment issue to discuss establishing community benefit agreements as a tool for helping low-income neighborhoods become a partner with business in the redevelopment process. 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
End Games: The Challenge of Sustainability This report explores how funders and grantees think about sustainability, and how to best support and prepare promising projects for post-grant sustainability. Read More
Two Decades of JDAI From Demonstration Project to National Standard This report documents the progress of Casey's Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative, both in reforming juvenile detention practices nationwide and contributing to the larger juvenile justice reform movement Read More
The Essential Need for Partnering With Youth and Families to Fundamentally Transform Youth Probation Juvenile justice agencies must partner with youth and families to transform youth probation. Learn now to put these partnerships to work. Read More