Resources

Achieving Permanency Through Guardianship Training

The Permanency Continuum Series

This training for social workers focuses on finding a permanent family for foster care kids through guardianship.

Lifelong Families Permanency Case Practice Tools

Practice tools offer surveys, questions and examples to help social workers assess and organize factors impacting foster care permanency. Learn more.

Guide to Fidelity Measurement for the Lifelong Families Model

This toolkit contains inventories and forms used to measure fidelity when applying the principles of Lifelong Families, a foster care practice model.

Achieving Permanency Through Reunification Training

The Permanency Continuum Series, Lifelong Families Model

This child welfare training deepens social worker skills for reuniting kids in foster care with their families — when that option is best for the kids.

Casey Partners with First Focus to Create State Policy Advocacy and Reform Center for Child Welfare

The Casey Foundation is creating a nonpartisan center to support policy advocates in reforming child welfare systems for children and families.

Bringing Promise to Washington, D.C.

The DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative

Working with partners like residents, businesses and schools, this D.C. collaborative aims to keep kids healthy and in school from cradle to college.

More Than a Job

Final Results from the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Transitional Jobs Program

This report reviews how the CEO program helps former prisoners boost job prospects and lower their risk of returning to jail.

Lifelong Families and Replication Manual Trainings: Train the Trainers

Training Manual

This complete training program prepares future trainers to teach the child welfare Lifelong Families practice model and the Replication Manual training.