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
Donor Perspectives on Nonprofit Capacity Building This report researches individual philanthropic donors and their perceptions of capacity building for the nonprofits they support. Read More
Who Are America’s Poor Children? Examining Health Disparities Among Children in the United States This report explores health disparities between poor and nonpoor kids in five areas: environmental health, health insurance coverage, access to health care services, healthy behaviors and health outcomes. It also spotlights real-world strategies for addressing some of these inequalities and advocates a simple end goal: Give all kids — no matter what their family finances — a positive, healthy start. Read More
Ten Considerations for Advocacy Evaluation Planning Lessons Learned from KIDS COUNT Grantee Experiences This document focuses on what it takes for KIDS COUNT and other policy advocates to address the theoretical steps of evaluating their work and how to apply these steps in real work. Read More
Understanding the Experiences and Needs of Children of Incarcerated Parents Views from Mentors This report details conversations from mentors of kids with parents in prison and how the prison time affects the kids. Read More
Investing in Sustainable Community Change: A Funder’s Guide to Community Coaching This guide is a resource for funders who include coaching in their community change initiatives. A community coach supports communities and organizations in identifying and achieving their goals. Read More
Supporting Vulnerable Children and Families Innovative Approaches for Individual Philanthropists and Small Family Foundations There is no better time than today for a philanthropist to learn how to expand their horizons and join forces with every potential partner in every sector — including business and government. Read More
Back From the Brink: Women, Crack, and the Child Welfare System The Challenge of Drug Abuse in Child Welfare, Part One This document describes what is known about the effects of crack cocaine on women and their children, ways of treating addiction, the challenges of engaging women in treatment and promising approaches at the system, program and worker level for working with drug-affected women. Read More
Juvenile Jailhouse Rocked: Reforming Detention in Chicago, Portland and Sacramento A Preprint for AdvoCasey Fall/Winter 1999 This article presents a hardcore look at how secure detention for kids really works, what it took for Casey to institute its Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative and the effects JDAI has had on grantee jurisdictions and the detention field itself. Read More
Facing Our Future Children in the Aftermath of Immigration Enforcement This report examines the consequences of parental arrest, detention, and deportation on 190 children in 85 families in six locations across the country. Read More
