A Framework for Effectively Partnering with Young People This guide from the Annie E. Casey Foundation explores the practice of authentic youth engagement, including how it benefits young people, why it works and what it looks like in real life. Read More
Children Living in High-Poverty, Low-Opportunity Neighborhoods This snapshot shares the latest data — for the nation and each state — on children growing up in high-poverty areas. It also singles out two important factors, geographic location and race and ethnicity, that shape a child’s risk of living in concentrated poverty. Click here to learn more about children living in concentrated poverty. Read More
Fostering Youth Transitions 2018 Using Data to Drive Policy and Practice Decisions This Annie E. Casey Foundation brief, which utilizes the most comprehensive dataset ever collected across all 50 states, fills in key details about the lives of young people who have experienced foster care. Read More
The Changing Child Population of the United States An Analysis of the U.S. Population Under 18 Using Data From the 2010 Census In 2010, the number of children in the United States was at an all-time high of 74.2 million. Learn about the changing number of children in the US based on census data and the rate at which that population was growing in this report! Read More
Transforming Juvenile Probation A Vision for Getting it Right The Casey Foundation shares its vision for transforming juvenile probation into a focused intervention that promotes personal growth, positive behavior change and long-term success for young people with serious and repeat arrest histories. Read More
Advancing the Mission: Tools for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion This toolkit condenses 15 years of the Casey Foundation’s employee work “hard-wiring” racial equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) into the organizational culture. Read More
The Road to Adulthood Aligning Child Welfare Practice With Adolescent Brain Development With knowledge of how the adolescent brain matures, adults can do more to ensure that the road leaving foster care will take young people to self-sufficiency and successful adulthood. And this guide tells how. Read More
No Place for Kids The Case for Reducing Juvenile Incarceration The case against America’s youth prisons and correctional training schools can be neatly summarized in five words: dangerous, ineffective, unnecessary, wasteful and inadequate. Read More
Race Matters: Organizational Self-Assessment Use this questionnaire to find out if your organization has deep-rooted, unintentional racial prejudice. Read More
Fostering Youth Transitions 2023 State and National Data to Drive Foster Care Advocacy "Fostering Youth Transitions 2023" examines the experiences of teenagers and young adults in foster care as reported by all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Read More