Ensuring That Adoptions Succeed is in Everyone's Best Interest Failed adoptions are an increasing trend, and result in trauma to the children who are directly affected. This article makes the case for pre- and post-adoptive services to improve the likelihood of successful adoptions. Read More
School, Community, Family Connections This Casey investment snapshot shows how the education portfolio invested in community schools to build strong connections that support everyone’s success. Read More
Paying for College: Availability of Need-based Financial Aid for New Jersey's Working Adults This policy brief identifies the challenges that low-income working adults in New Jersey encounter when they pursue a college education – including access to adequate financial aid. Read More
Mission-Related Deposits Social Investments This report, about socially responsible investing for the philanthropic community, shows how the Casey Foundation employs social investing to enhance its programs and practices in tough neighborhoods. Read More
Families Like Yours 2008-2009 Recruitment Initiative of Casey Family Services This resource includes four separate documents outlining the conceptual framework for the recruitment initiative as well as the implementation and tracking of a nine-strategy plan to recruit foster and adoptive parents who matched the needs of youth in treatment foster care at Casey Family Services, the Foundation's former direct services agency. It includes an overall review of the recruitment practices, as well as forms and tools for setting agency recruitment goals concurrently with implementation of the agency’s Lifelong Families practice model. This model is intended to serve as a method of improving foster care practice within private child welfare agencies and advancing permanency outcomes for those in care, especially older youth in treatment foster care. Read More
Building Bridges for Child Welfare with Families, Neighborhoods, Communities Family to Family This brief, outlining Casey’s former Family to Family initiative for rebuilding child welfare, describes the rationale, strategy and effectiveness of the neighborhood-centered, family-focused child protection approach. Read More
What Works for Older Youth During the Transition to Adulthood Lessons from Experimental Evaluations of Programs and Interventions This report identifies programs that help older youth transition into adulthood and highlights the features of each that have the potential to contribute to success. Read More
Replicating Detention Reform Lessons from the Florida Detention Initiative This report compares two reform initiatives with nearly identical objectives yet drastically different final chapters. Readers will learn how officials successfully reduced local detention center populations and why a similar statewide effort failed just years later. Replicating Detention Reform is the 12th installment in a series devoted to identifying more effective, efficient alternatives to juvenile detention. Read More
Detention Reform in Rural Jurisdictions challenges and opportunities This report tackles the issue of detention reform in rual areas and supports the ideal that children everywhere—regardless of their zip code—deserve to be treated fairly when facing detention. It shares lessons learned from a multiyear, multisite project conducted by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Called the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI), the project aimed to do just what its name suggests: identify more effective, efficient alternatives to juvenile detention. Read More
The Effects of State EITC Expansion on Children's Health This brief examines the impact of state-level Earned Income Tax Credits on specific health-related outcomes for children. Read More
