Money Pals, Part One Being Cool with Cash This workbook is designed to teach children in foster care, ages 8 to 11, practical skills about using money, Read More
The Unequal Distribution of Child Poverty Highest Rates Among Young Blacks and Children of Single Mothers in Rural America This report examines poverty rates throughout the United States based on race and family structure for children of all ages as well as by place and region for children under age 6. Read More
Strengthening Policies to Support Children, Youth and Families Who Experience Trauma Unclaimed Children Revisited: Working Paper No. 2 This working paper shares evidence-based practices and key policy recommendations aimed at building a true, trauma-informed system of care. It offers compelling data on trauma and spotlights successful trauma-sensitive programs in action. It also outlines critical service gaps in current efforts to support kids and families exposed to trauma. Read More
The 2005 KIDS COUNT Data Book This KIDS COUNT Data Book provides a state-by-state statistical portrait of the educational, health, and economic conditions of American children. The essay examines four employment barriers that policymakers and others consider among the most difficult to overcome: substance abuse, domestic violence, a history of incarceration and depression. Read More
The Impact of Trauma Facilitator’s Guide for Module One of TST-FC This facilitator guide helps trainers explain trauma and its effects on children, as part of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Trauma Systems Therapy series. Read More
Place Matters Aligning Investments in a Community-Based Continuum of Care for Maine Youth Transitioning to Adulthood This report, written with Maine’s policymakers in mind, delivers a clear charge to improve how the state supports system-involved youth between the ages of 14 to 25. It calls for a full continuum of care — from prevention to reintegration — that leverages local resources and national research to offer community-based services at every step. Read More
Evaluation of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s On the Frontline Initiative On the Frontline, an initiative of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, aims to help caseworkers and their supervisors make better investigative decisions about protecting children and strengthening families. This evaluation examines the experiences of child welfare agencies in two counties — one in Ohio and the other in Colorado — that began implementing the initiative in 2015. Read More
Children in Immigrant Families State by State Fact Sheets This report is a series of 50 state-specific papers providing information about the status of immigrant families in each state. Read More
Using Integrated Data to Identify and Solve Housing Conditions that Harm School Readiness A Cleveland Case Study This case study tells how shared data can be used to identify educational risk factors and then develop and implement solutions for addressing them. Read More
Recruiting Foster Parents and Strengthening Child Welfare in Oklahoma A Case Study In 2014, the Annie E. Casey Foundation partnered with the state of Oklahoma to introduce effective strategies to recruit and retain more foster families while shutting down shelters and groups homes across the state. Read More
