Blog Post
As part of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s On the Frontline initiative — a multiyear effort to help strengthen child welfare workforces — Colorado's Jefferson County has dramatically decreased how long it takes to fill key child welfare staff positions.
News Release
The Annie E. Casey Foundation today released Fostering Youth Transitions, a data brief that highlights the most comprehensive data set ever collected across all 50 states to assess how young people fare as they transition from foster care to adulthood.
Blog Post
The Casey Foundation has created a video training series — Coping With the Unique Challenges of Kinship Care — as a resource for kin caregivers and the child welfare workers who supporting them. Therapist and trainer Joseph Crumbley hosts the sessions.
Webinar
This webinar recording explores a simple approach — the Hexagon Tool — that can help child welfare leaders assess and select the right evidence-based program. It is the third session in a four-part webinar series called Leading With Evidence.
Blog Post
When Missouri’s child welfare system set out to adopt a more collaborative, family-centered approach, it needed a blueprint for change. Enter the Missouri Child Welfare Practice Model.
Blog Post
Child welfare agencies can struggle to assemble and retain frontline staff members needed to ensure that kids and families are safe and thriving. A new publication from the Annie E. Casey Foundation provides agency leaders with a blueprint for improving workforce practices through hiring and retaining the right people.
Webinar
The Casey Foundation is hosting a webinar on Oct. 16 for caregivers and the professionals who work with them. The free session will highlight lessons from Casey’s work on helping relatives navigate the emotional challenges of raising kin.
Blog Post
The Casey Foundation recently contributed to a special issue of the Child Welfare League of America's Child Welfare Journal focused on young people in foster care who are gay or lesbian.
Blog Post
The federal Administration for Children and Families is now accepting applications — through July 20, 2018 — for the first of two funding opportunities aimed at helping state child welfare agencies strengthen and evaluate existing kinship navigator programs or develop new ones. A new Q & A shares data and background so that jurisdictions are prepared to benefit from this chance to help children thrive in kin families.
Blog Post
ARC Reflections, a nine-session curriculum developed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Justice Resource Institute, teaches foster parents a critical skill: how to understand and respond to children whose lives have been rocked by trauma.