Casey Connects: Summer 2002 Making Work Count for Low-Income Families This issue of Casey Connects uses KIDS COUNT Data Book statistics to examine how American families are faring in the wake of welfare reform. A second story spotlights a Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative site that has successfully written race and ethnicity out of the detention decision equation. Smaller stories highlight Casey-celebrated movers and shakers, the importance of cultural competence in connecting workers to jobs and lessons from the Foundation’s Rebuilding Communities Initiative. Read More
Casey Connects: Spring 2012 No Place Like Home This issue of Casey Connects explores the power of relationships and the importance of connecting young people in foster care to permanent families. It highlights the work of Casey’s Child Welfare Strategy Group and Casey Family Services as well as a recent report on adolescent brain development by the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative. Read More
KIDS COUNT Indicator Brief: Increasing the Percentage of Children Living in Two-Parent Families This brief outlines four strategies for increasing the percentage of children living with two parents. Read More
Casey Connects: Winter 2006 Juvenile Detention Reform Initiative Sparking a Vibrant National Movement This issue of Casey Connects shines a light on the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative, a justice reform movement creating a safer, fairer and more cost-efficient system for detained kids. Readers will also learn how conventional detention systems are failing girls and what some places are doing to engage youth in detention reform. Read More
Collaboration and Leadership in Juvenile Detention This report explores the roles of teamwork and leadership in advancing complex detention reform. It shares the journeys, regrets and field-tested tips of sites participating in Casey's Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI). Read More
Evaluation Findings and Lessons Learned from the AECF Mental Health Initiative for Urban Children Final Comprehensive Report A comprehensive evaluation of the three main components implemented in the Casey Foundation’s five-year, community-wide project to improve mental health services in very poor inner-city neighborhoods and to decrease public monies being spent on social services. Read More
Reducing Unnecessary Delay Innovations in Case Processing This report tells how sites eliminated delays in case processing procedures to move juveniles into — and out of —detention more quickly. It shares lessons learned from Casey's Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative. Read More
Innovative Philanthropic Financing for Community Change This report provides a concise summary of the East Baltimore Revitalization Initiative, with a focus on how the Annie E. Casey Foundation used innovative financing techniques to support the project. Read More
A Cost-Saving Approach Detention Reform Brief 1 The Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) describes how communities in its program have reduced wasteful spending on unnecessary jail time for kids. Read More
Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative Results Report This is the first-published annual summary of results from the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI), which began submitting results reports in 2004. These reports provide sites with an opportunity to report detention reform progress and to generate initiative-wide aggregate measures and intersite comparisons to deepen understanding of the overall status of the detention reform movement. Read More
