People Helping People: Partnerships Between Professionals and Natural Helpers Building Community Partnerships in Child Welfare, Part Four Neighborhood connections help build communities and lift struggling families out of poverty. This guide shows families and communities how to strengthen neighborhoods and improve the quality of life through strong neighborhood connections. Read More
Workforce Development Policy and the AECF Jobs Initiative This policy brief discusses lessons learned from Casey’s Jobs Initiatives and presents recommendations from this work that would make the Workforce Initiative Act less restrictive and more effective. Read More
The Affordable Care Act Implications for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, youth transitioning out of foster care can now receive Medicaid coverage up to age 26. This brief highlights the policy change and shares seven ways that states and agencies can work to improve both health insurance access and health outcomes among recent foster care alums. Read More
What Happens to Housing Assistance Leavers? Low-Income Working Families, Paper 27 Using data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Moving to Opportunity demonstration, along with HOPE VI panel study, this report explores the reasons and rationale for families to leave housing assistance – and how their experiences compare with those households that remain on assistance. Read More
A Snapshot of Children on the Texas Border This four-page Kids Count snapshot spotlights what life is like for children on the Texas border. Readers will review the longstanding challenges facing Texas border residents and learn about new opportunities and key indicators for child well-being in these communities. Read More
Building Community/University Partnerships Drake University and Trinity College This report describes the learnings from a gathering between Iowa’s Drake University and Connecticut’s Trinity College on how to improve university-community partnerships. Read More
Organic Philanthropy Small Investments, Big Results In this report, the Casey Foundation introduces a new approach — Organic Philanthropy — aimed at propelling and sustaining positive community change. Readers will see this practice in action, as Casey recounts how it leveraged local resources and modest seed money to revitalize and expand aid for disadvantaged families in Native American and Southern-border communities. Read More
Improving Access to Apprenticeship Strengthening State Policies and Practices This report outlines the need for employers, nonprofits and policy makers to align resources and systems to create or strengthen programs — such as apprenticeships — to train low-skill adults for jobs that can help their families achieve financial stability. Read More
A Reference Manual for Child Tax Benefits This report summarizes the available tax benefits for different family structures, how each child policy is structured, the deductions or credits allowed and what changes to the tax code might be coming. Read More
Factors Affecting State Differences in Child Well-Being A KIDS COUNT Working Paper This report uses KIDS COUNT data to identify how child well-being across states is linked to state-level policy and population characteristics. Read More
