Resources

Authentic Youth Engagement

Youth-Adult Partnerships

This brief shows how agencies can build strong youth-adult partnerships to help young people in foster care stay engaged and connected into adulthood.

Promoting Development of Resilience Among Young People in Foster Care

This brief outlines strategies child welfare systems can use to help young adults in foster care build resilience. From the Jim Casey Youth Initiative.

Building From Strength: Creating Opportunity in Greater Baltimore’s Next Economy

This report explores how current economic development affects job growth in Baltimore and how inclusive planning can shape future regional strategies.

Why We’re Expanding JDAI’s Focus

Bart Lubow explains why the Annie E. Casey Foundation is working to reduce the nation's overreliance on juvenile confinement.

Reducing Congregate Care: Worth the Fight

The Casey Foundation supports reducing congregate care in foster placements from 16% to 5-10% in five years, prioritizing lifelong family connections.

Self-Inflicted Wounds

Protecting Families and Our Economy from Bad Budget Choices

This report compares several 2010 budget cutting proposals and how each will affect the United States population.

Housing as a Platform for Formerly Incarcerated Persons

Stable housing may be a short- and long-term solution for helping released prisoners successfully re-enter society, but more research is needed.

Making Performance Funding Work for All

The Working Poor Families Project Policy Brief

This report discusses performance funding policy for higher education currently being promoted at the national, state and local levels.

The Effects of State EITC Expansion on Children's Health

This brief examines the impact of state-level Earned Income Tax Credits on specific health-related outcomes for children.

Resources for Holding Icebreaker Meetings Between Birth and Foster Parents

Icebreaker meetings can help forge relationships between birth parents, foster parents and caseworkers — which is extremely important for foster kids.