In January 2020, Team Decision Making — a collaborative approach to child-safety planning that the Annie E. Casey Foundation developed and began testing nearly 30 years ago — will move to the National Council on Crime & Delinquency’s Children’s Research Center.
On the Frontline aims to help caseworkers and their supervisors make better investigative decisions about protecting children and strengthening families. A new evaluation and report examine the experiences of child welfare agencies in two counties — one in Ohio and the other in Colorado — that began implementing the initiative in 2015.
Team Decision Making, a promising approach that the Annie E. Casey Foundation developed and has tested for more than 20 years, helps child welfare agencies make informed decisions about whether to separate children from their parents. This post explores key Foundation resources on Team Decision Making.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation today released “Keeping Kids in Families: Trends in U.S. Foster Care Placement,” using data from child welfare systems across all 50 states and the District of Columbia over a 10-year period to look at how placements for young people in foster care have changed.
Working with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Colorado's Jefferson County Division of Children, Youth, Families and Adult Protective Services has enhanced decision making at its earliest possible point: When children are referred to authorities because of suspected abuse or neglect.
Addressing staff turnover is one of the child welfare system’s greatest challenges. Employee departures can erode agency morale and upend an already-stressful work environment. Losing a staff member is also expensive, as each exiting worker costs an agency around $54,000 to replace.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation has developed a downloadable tool kit to help child welfare leaders, advocates, private providers and others talk about how the Family First Prevention Services Act can help improve outcomes for children and families.
Kin caregivers don’t always receive the same level of support that foster parents receive. This can result in kids missing out on key resources — from school supplies to mental health services — that they need to thrive. This blog post shares specific ways that individuals, communities and child welfare agencies can support kin caregivers now.
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.
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.
