New Report Finds Many Families with Children Are Depressed, Uninsured, Hungry and at Risk of Foreclosure or Eviction Families require an immediate policy response to meet the needs of children during the COVID-19 pandemic, which — according to a new policy report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation — has left millions struggling with finances, school, work and mental health. Read More
First-of-its-Kind Partnership Aims to Redesign Child Welfare Into Child and Family Well-Being Systems A new effort, Thriving Families, Safer Children, aims to move from traditional, reactive child protection systems to those designed to support child and family well-being and prevent child maltreatment and unnecessary family separations. Read the news release. Read More
Dreama Gentry: Empowering Rural Communities through Education A recent evaluation of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Children and Family Fellowship included case studies of individual Fellows who are working to transform the way organizations work on behalf of kids and families. Fellow Dreama Gentry is training her focus on kindergarten readiness in rural communities. Read More
2020 KIDS COUNT Data Book The Casey Foundation's 2020 KIDS COUNT® Data Book provides information on child well-being to help inform the work of the policymakers, researchers and advocates. Read the report here. Read More
Newspaper Series Highlights Evidence2Success in Kearns, Utah A three-part series by The Salt Lake Tribune explores how community leaders in Utah’s Kearns are implementing the Evidence2Success framework to help children and teens build better relationships, make healthier choices and ward off depression and negative thoughts. Read More
Responding to COVID-19 Through Relationships and Cultural Understanding The COVID-19 crisis has disproportionately affected Native Americans. By leveraging its relationships and understanding of tribal culture, the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health is doing its part by providing food, water, personal protective equipment and other essential home health items, as well as COVID-19 testing and contact tracing efforts. Read More
Arthur Brooks on Pursuing Happiness, Depolarizing Politics and Realizing Promise in the Periphery In this episode of CaseyCast, the Foundation’s Lisa Hamilton chats with economist Arthur Brooks about what kids, families and communities need to flourish. Their conversation covers — among other topics — the benefits of engaging marginalized populations, the need to rethink the proverbial pursuit of happiness, and the merits of detoxing from national politics. Read More
Casey Joins National Partnership To Tackle Disparities in Rural America Save the Children has joined forces with StriveTogether, Partners for Education at Berea College and the Annie E. Casey Foundation to develop and launch a first-of-its-kind collective impact effort for rural America. Learn more about this collective effort. Read More
Kids in Concentrated Poverty Data Snapshot Find state-level statistics on concentrated poverty and how child poverty rates have changed over time in this KIDS COUNT data snapshot. Read More
Children Living in High-Poverty, Low-Opportunity Neighborhoods This snapshot shares the latest data — for the nation and each state — on children growing up in high-poverty areas. It also singles out two important factors, geographic location and race and ethnicity, that shape a child’s risk of living in concentrated poverty. Click here to learn more about children living in concentrated poverty. Read More
