Challenges and Opportunities in Children’s Mental Health A View from Families and Youth This report adopts a family and youth perspective to discuss what isn’t working — and what can be done about it — in regards to children’s behavioral health policies and services. It is the byproduct of a meeting hosted by the National Center of Children in Poverty and shares the views of 16 stakeholders in the child behavioral health field. Read More
Family to Family: Our Work Flyer This document provides an overview of the Foundation's Family to Family initiative. It lists the principles, outcomes, goals and strategies of the initiative. Read More
TARC: The Information Exchange Network of Making Connections The Technical Assistance Resource Center (TARC) served as the information exchange arm of the Casey Foundation's decade-long Making Connections community change initiative launched in 1999. Read More
A Long Road Ahead Update on the Arkansas Child Welfare System This report examines the performance of the Arkansas child welfare system across a variety of key indicators, from January 2005 to March 2006. Read More
Casey Connects: Summer 2006 KIDS COUNT Data Book Urges Support for Family-Based Child Care This issue of Casey Connects summarizes findings from the 2006 KIDS COUNT Data Book and essay. More specifically: It tells what we should do — and what select programs are already doing — to help improve the quality of family, friend and neighbor care across America. Read More
Cultural Competence in Workforce Development The Jobs Initiative Experience This report focuses on six sites invested in workforce development as part of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Jobs Initiative. Readers will learn about the cultural competence issues that arose in these sites and the tools and strategies developed in response. This publication is a sequel to the Foundation’s Taking the Initiative on Jobs and Race report, released in 2001. Read More
A Road to Results: Investing in Resources to Achieve Results Learn how Casey’s education portfolio invested, supported and measured grantee programs and performance to achieve foundation goals at the time of this report. Read More
Strengthening Rural Families: Avoiding the Money Trap This 25-minute video highlights financial problems that often ensnare rural working families, including payday loans, high interest car loans, high debt, poor credit and more. Read More
The Power of Plain Talk Exploring One Program's Influence on the Adolescent Reproductive Health Field Plain Talk is a community-based, parental involvement program aimed at reducing teen pregnancy. This report summarizes results from interviews with leaders in the teen sexuality field regarding Plain Talk’s effectiveness and chances of being replicated on a larger scale. Read More
Vulnerable Youth Recent Trends This paper, an extension of Casey's 2004 KIDS COUNT Data Book, examines national and state-level trend data on five types of vulnerable youth. Read More