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A Cost-Saving Approach

Detention Reform Brief 1

The Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) describes how communities in its program have reduced wasteful spending on unnecessary jail time for kids.

An Effective Public Safety Strategy

Detention Reform Brief 2

This report gives insight into the success of detention alternatives when dealing with youth arrests.

Beyond Detention

System Transformation Through Juvenile Detention Reform

Beyond Detention is the 14th report in a series about a multiyear, multisite project conducted by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Called the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI), the project aimed to do just what its name suggests: Identify more effective, efficient alternatives to juvenile detention. This entry, written eight years after its series counterparts, highlights how three model sites moved beyond their core reform efforts — and a focus on detention — to make broader improvements in the juvenile justice system.

The Impact of Leadership Development on Early Childhood Education

A Preliminary Review of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Leadership in Action Program

This documentation project explores whether the first statewide and local Leadership in Action Program (LAP) had an impact on the project and the leaders, and if that impact continued to influence efforts to ensure that all children in Maryland and Baltimore City enter school ready to learn.

Leadership in Action Program

Casey’s Leadership in Action Program delivers hands-on training for people from diverse fields and backgrounds who are working hard to improve results for vulnerable children and families. This brochure explains how the program works and how to tell if a community is ready to participate.

Connecting Schools, Families & Communities

Stories and Results from the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Education Investments

Partnerships among schools, families, and community organizations can reconnect urban schools to their communities and improve results for young people and their families. This report provides an overview of Casey's investment philosophy and strategies, and its approach to defining and documenting grant-making results.

Detention Reform

A Cost-Saving Approach

This 4-page issue brief describes how Casey's Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) helps helps communities reduce wasteful spending detaining non-violent youth, and frees up these funds for more effective public safety solutions.

Car Programs for Low-Income Families

Transporting Families Toward Financial Stability and Success

The need for a car is particularly critical in rural areas. This brief describes a variety of programs that help rural low income famillies get a car to help build family economic success.

Promoting Effective Early Learning

What Every Policymaker and Educator Should Know

This report discusses what policymakers and educators need to do to help impoverished preschool children reach their potential in school.

Casey in Seattle

Creating Successful Futures for Children and Families

Seattle was the home of UPS founder Jim Casey and his siblings, who created the Annie E. Casey Foundation in honor of their mother and committed it to serving disadvantaged kids. This publication features some of the Casey projects and partnerships that reflect that commitment, including Seattle Jobs Initiative, a decade-long effort to link low-income men and women with a living wage; Making Connections White Center, which demonstrates how communities and residents can lead efforts to improve tough neighborhoods; and Thrive by Five, a public-private partnership that aims to improve, expand and promote early childhood education in the state.