ARC Reflections Facilitator Guide for Session Four Cultivate Connection This ARC Reflections Training Curriculum walks a facilitator — slide by slide — through each session’s content. Session four helps facilitators explain the range of strategies for building and sustaining relationships with children and teens who have experienced profound harm and loss in previous relationships. Read More
Exploring Quality Choices: School Vouchers This publication presents an in-depth look at Casey’s investment in the Washington, D.C. voucher effort and summarizes its results. Read More
ARC Reflections Facilitator Guide for Session Three Put on Your Oxygen Mask This ARC Reflections Training Curriculum walks a facilitator — slide by slide — through each session’s content. Session Three helps facilitators teach participants how to understand their own responses to stress and trauma, identify their strengths and vulnerabilities and identify self-care issues. Read More
2006 KIDS COUNT Essay Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care: Strengthening a Critical Resource to Help Young Children Succeed This essay, taken from the 2006 KIDS COUNT Data Book, examines how "family, friend and neighbor care", a type of child care used by millions of families, nurtures young children and how parents and providers can connect to resources to increase the quality of this care. Read More
Ranking States on Improvement in Child Well-Being Since 2000 A KIDS COUNT Working Paper This report uses the 10 KIDS COUNT indicators to assess increases and decreases in absolute child well-being. View the data for each state since 2000. Read More
Casey Connects: Fall 2003 Helping Immigrant and Refugee Families Not Just Survive, But Thrive This issue of Casey Connects highlights why immigrants are so important to America’s economy and how the Foundation is working to boost community engagement among these families. Smaller stories spotlight a roundup of Casey-recommended resources, the expanding influence of National Family Week, and the ramifications of pending legislation on private foundations and their grant recipients. Read More
The Center for Working Families: A How-To Guide This report show how impoverished families can use the Center for Working Families strategy of Earn it, Keep it, Grow It for financial success. Read More
ARC Reflections Facilitator Guide for Session Nine Endings and Beginnings This ARC Reflections Training Curriculum walks a facilitator — slide by slide — through each session’s content. Session nine emphasizes that not all endings are the same, transitions can be challenging for children and teens in foster care and foster parents can support a positive transition in a number of ways. Read More
Race Matters: Unequal Opportunity in Adolescent Reproductive Health This 2006 fact sheet brings awareness to the issue of racial inequality and teen pregnancy. Read More
New Help for Children Raised by Grandparents and Other Relatives Questions and Answers About the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 This report outlines the key provisions of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, and is intended as a guide to assist people and agencies who want to implement the new act to help improve the lives of children. Read More
