Casey Partners with First Focus to Create State Policy Advocacy and Reform Center for Child Welfare The Annie E. Casey Foundation is helping to form a nonpartisan center to enhance the existing network of state child welfare policy advocates working to achieve comprehensive reforms for children and families involved in child welfare systems. Read More
Foundation Announces New Human Services Frontline Practice Strategy In order to shift to a grantmaking strategy that will help hundreds of foster care and other nonprofit human services agencies adopt innovative, proven approaches to improve child welfare practices, the Annie E. Casey Foundation will discontinue providing direct services through Casey Family Services. Read More
Report: Children Make Up Smallest-Ever Share of U.S. Population Children accounted for just 22% of the country’s total population in 2020, an all-time low, according to an analysis released by Casey Foundation. Read More
Youth Unemployment Soars in Past Decade Nearly 6.5 million U.S. teens and young adults are neither in school nor in the workforce, veering toward chronic underemployment as adults and failing to gain the skills employers need in the 21st century, according to a new KIDS COUNT report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Many of these young people, ranging from ages 16 to 24, face numerous obstacles, according to the report, Youth and Work: Restoring Teen and Young Adult Connections to Opportunity. Read More
New Casey Foundation Initiative Aims to Improve Job Prospects for Young Adults The Annie E. Casey Foundation announced today that it plans to award $6 million in grants over the next four years to increase job opportunities for America’s young adults in five cities, enabling them to begin building careers and develop the skills employers need. Read More
The Foundation Awards Over $850,000 in Grants to Summer Programs for Baltimore Kids and Youth The Casey Foundation has awarded grants to 43 local nonprofits through its Baltimore Direct Services Grants (BDSG) program, amounting to a combined $860,000 that will support summer activities and programs for hundreds of Baltimore City’s young people in 2016. Read More
Reliance on Incarcerating Youth Offenders Not Paying Off for States, Taxpayers or Kids, Report Finds The Annie E. Casey Foundation's report, No Place for Kids: The Case for Reducing Juvenile Incarceration, assembles a vast array of evidence to demonstrate that incarcerating kids doesn't work. Read More
Twenty-fifth Edition of KIDS COUNT Data Book Highlights Improvements Since 1990 National and state policy changes have resulted in positive changes for children since the first KIDS COUNT Data Book was released in 1990, but more are living in high-poverty neighborhoods and in single-parent families today, according to the Foundation's 2014 report on child well-being. Read More
Reading Proficiency in Early Grades Key to Closing Achievement Gap New research summarized in Casey's report, Early Warning Confirmed, further demonstrates the importance of ensuring children in America are reading on grade level by third grade. Read More
La 25ª Edición del Libro de Datos KIDS COUNT Destaca las Mejoras Desde 1990 Los cambios en políticas nacionales y estatales han resultado en cambios positivos para los niños desde el primer Libro de Datos en 1990, sin embargo más niños viven en áreas de alta pobreza y familias monoparentales ahora, según el reporte sobre el bienestar de los niños de la Fundación en 2014. Read More
