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I Know Where I'm Going, Part One

But Will My Cash Keep Up

This guide, written for teenagers in foster care, provides the knowledge and skills necessary to be financially savvy and able to save for your future.

Money Pals, Part Two

Being Cool with Cash

This workbook is designed to teach foster children, ages 8 to 11, practical skills about shopping, such as keeping a spending diary, being a smart shopper and understanding advertising.

Money Pals, Part One

Being Cool with Cash

This workbook is designed to teach children in foster care, ages 8 to 11, practical skills about using money,

Team Decisionmaking: Building Community Partnerships in Child Welfare (Part 2)

Involving the Family and Community in Child Welfare Decisions

This manual, created for Casey's Family to Family grantees, shows how team decisionmaking works as a strategy for permanence in family foster care system, and how state agencies can incorporate it into their day to day practice.

What is Trauma?

This five-page report reviews symptoms and treatments associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and trauma. It tells how traumatic events can impact children and offers four recommendations for helping them cope with trauma.

Philanthropic Due Diligence

Exploratory Case Studies to Improve Investments in Urban Schools

This paper proposes using Exploratory Case Studies as a tool to improve philanthropic giving to school districts empowering funders to make smarter, more strategic investments in our children’s future.

Moving Up Is A Steep Climb

Parents’ Work and Children’s Welfare in the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Jobs Initiative

Researchers spent 18 months following families to better understand how parental employment intersects with child well-being. Their study focused on 10 low-income families from two Jobs Initiative sites — Seattle and Milwaukee. The goal? Learn how workforce development impacts a parent’s job mobility and if this mobility — or lack thereof — affects their kids.

Casey Connects: Spring 2002

Helping Advocates Weigh In On The Welfare Reform Debate

This issue of Casey Connects spotlights the efforts of the Casey Foundation to help parents, kids and advocacy groups discuss child welfare reform and foster care remodeling in an effort to move things forward.

American Indian and Alaska Native Children in the 2000 Census

This report utilizes census data to examine how the American Indian population is changing — and growing. It is part of a series of papers on the 2000 census prepared for the nationwide network of KIDS COUNT projects.

End Games: The Challenge of Sustainability

This report explores how funders and grantees think about sustainability, and how to best support and prepare promising projects for post-grant sustainability.