Children and Family Fellowship Overview This brochure highlights the Casey Foundation’s Children and Family Fellowship, a 20-month executive leadership program aimed at improving outcomes for children, families and communities. Read More
A Jobs Initiative Research Brief Approaches to Measuring and Tracking Career Advancement This research brief explores the findings and challenges of data collected over an eight-year period on thousands of individuals who were placed in jobs through the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Jobs Initiative. Read More
Becoming Adults, Executive Summary One-Year Impact Findings from the Youth Villages Transitional Living Evaluation This report presents MDRC’s evaluation of the Transitional Living program located in Tennessee and operated by Youth Villages. Read More
The Right Start for America’s Newborns A decade of city and state trends This working paper — which updates previous Right Start reports — looks at eight healthy birth measures from 1990 to 1999. It examines these measures at the state level, nationwide and by grouping together America’s 50 largest cities. 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
Connecticut City Launches Local Campaign for Grade-Level Reading This article outlines the Foundation’s launch of a local campaign to improve grade-level reading In New Britain, CT where third-grade reading scores are the lowest in the state. 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
Testing the Validity of the KIDS COUNT State-Level Index of Child Well-Being This report compares two indices of child well-being to determine if and how their results align. See how Casey’s KIDS COUNT® Data Book fared. 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
Using Local Data to Explore the Experiences and Needs of Children of Incarcerated Parents The Urban Institute partnered with organizations in Chicago, Illinois; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Providence, Rhode Island to merge local and state level criminal justice and human services data to learn about children of incarcerated parents in their localities. This report presents findings from the three sites and a discussion of the possibilities and difficulties involved in merging and analyzing administrative data on this population. Read More