Child Advocacy Primer Tips and Tools for Improving Your Child Advocacy Skills This guide reviews 10 key child advocacy skills, such as setting an agenda, leveraging communication tools, and creating a coalition. At nearly every turn, readers will learn important questions to ask, examples of successful strategies and resources for learning more. Read More
KIDS COUNT Indicator Brief: Reducing the Child Death Rate This brief outlines five strategies to address health and safety issues that affect the well-being of children ages 1-14. Read More
Costly Credit: African Americans and Latinos in Debt Borrowing to Make Ends Meet Briefing Paper #5 While there were income gains in the late 1990s, the average American’s credit card debt rose faster than ever before. This paper documents the dramatic rise in credit card debt and provides a snapshot of these trends by race between 1992 and 2001. Read More
Making KIDS COUNT in Rural Northern New England This report pairs focus group feedback and interview answers with quantitative data to tell the story of family economic success in rural Northern New England. It offers recommendations — and a spark for ongoing discussions — aimed at helping families in these rural areas thrive. Read More
Ensuring Success for Young Children: Transition to Kindergarten This discussion guide outlines ways to support nonprofits that provide early childhood education programs to better prepare children for success in school as research shows that children’s failure in school is due in part to gaps in school readiness. Read More
Transitions Building Better Lives for Youth Leaving Foster Care This report aims to understand how Arizona’s foster care youth are faring during their transition to independent living. It shares feedback from current and former foster care youth across Arizona and outlines key findings and recommendations aimed at bolstering support and services for youth exiting care. Read More
Peer Networking and Community Change Experiences of the Annie E. Casey Foundation This report explores the development and use of internal and external peer networks by the Casey Foundation to design, develop and support its community change, system reform, leadership development and other initiatives and strategies. Read More
School Readiness, Full-Day Kindergarten, and Student Achievement An Empirical Investigation Using data from Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998–1999, this report examines the relationship between a child's preparedness for kindergarten and their achievements in math and reading through grade 5, and whether program components like full-day kindergarten help or hinder development of academic and non-academic skills. Read More
Making Performance Funding Work for All The Working Poor Families Project Policy Brief This report discusses performance funding policy for higher education currently being promoted at the national, state and local levels. Read More
Investing in New Orleans Lessons for Philanthropy in Public Housing Redevelopment This report examines how philanthropy shaped the overall approach to community change and public housing development in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The document uses Casey’s role as an example and its perspective on the process as a lens to focus on efforts that were results-oriented, resident-focused, multi-generational and economically sustainable. Read More
