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
Car Programs for Low-Income Families Transporting Families Toward Financial Stability and Success The need for a car is particularly critical in rural areas. This brief describes a variety of programs that help rural low income famillies get a car to help build family economic success. Read More
Fostering Youth Transitions Using Data to Drive Policy and Practice Decisions This Annie E. Casey Foundation brief, which utilizes the most comprehensive data set ever collected across all 50 states, fills in key details about the lives of young people who have experienced foster care. 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
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
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
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
Race Matters: Organizational Self-Assessment Use this questionnaire to find out if your organization has deep-rooted, unintentional racial prejudice. Read More
Improving Community Safety Through Public Health Strategies Lessons From Atlanta and Milwaukee Casey’s community safety investments are built on the belief that gun violence is a public health epidemic that must be addressed with preventive measures developed with input from communities. 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
