ARC Reflections Case Manager Guide for Sessions One Through Nine The case manager guide helps agency staff support foster parents as they learn ARC concepts in discussions, action and evaluation. Read More
Family Strengthening Writ Large On Becoming a Nation that Promotes Strong Families and Successful Youth This report advocates a simple premise: Strong families = positive outcomes for children. Read More
A Path Forward for Camden This report examines the current state of Camden, New Jersey at the time of this report and the story behind its downfall. It also outlines critical next steps for jumpstarting the city’s recovery and must-have components of a potential turnaround plan. Read More
Building Family Economic Success: Foreclosure This fact sheet—with a razor-sharp focus on foreclosures—tells how the Annie E. Casey Foundation is funding important initiatives to ease the hemorrhaging of the housing crisis at the family and community level. It is part of a 10-part series devoted to sharing ways that the Foundation is helping to economically empower families across America. Read More
Youth who Age Out of Foster Care: Troubled Lives, Troubling Prospects Child Trends Research Brief This brief identifies the "baggage" kids carry from foster care and the extended difficulties faced by those aging out of the system without any social support. Read More
Casey Connects: Summer 2003 Countering the Hidden Costs of Poverty This issue of Casey Connects examines how America’s working poor pay more for staples and shares the Foundation’s recommendations for eliminating the devastating surcharge. Smaller stories introduce the Foundation’s multiyear Human Services Workforce Initiative and spotlight Casey-celebrated movers and shakers. Read More
Rebuild the Nation’s Child Welfare System The Annie E. Casey Foundation Issue Brief Casey’s Congressional call-to-action for rebuilding the child welfare system recommends changes that can promote proven practices in creating permanent family alignments. Read More
For Every Kid, A Forever Family This brochure provides an overview of Lifelong Families, a practice model developed and tested by the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s former direct service agency, Casey Family Services. The document highlights the values, principle components and benefits of the model, as well as early successes at improving the outcomes for children and youth in foster care. This model is intended to serve as a method of improving foster care practice within private child welfare agencies and advancing permanency outcomes especially for older youth in treatment foster care. Read More
Service Development in the AECF Mental Health Initiative for Urban Children Final Evaluation Report This evaluation of a past Casey demonstration project examines mental health delivery to high poverty inner-city kids. This distinctively different venture hitting governance, service delivery and policies/procedures included many types of kids, focused on prevention, tapped community-based delivery settings and involved parents. Read More
Examining Children’s Behavioral Health Service Utilization and Expenditures Faces of Medicaid This report from the Center for Health Care Strategies presents findings from a national data analysis of behavioral health care use and expense for children in Medicaid, which includes examination of specific topics/populations to help states uncover opportunities to improve care for these children. Read More
