South Carolina is leading an ambitious statewide effort to bolster and expand family support services — aiming to reduce reliance on the child protection system. Learn about the new approach.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation recently cohosted a webinar series — "The Unlearning of Child Welfare: A National Conversation to Advance Child and Family Well-Being" — to foster discussion about what is needed to rebuild the child welfare system.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation partners with NYC’s Administration for Children’s Services to launch a pilot program that pairs parents navigating the foster care system with parent advocates who know what it’s like.
The Casey Foundation has funded the development of the CCWIS Model RFP, a tool kit designed to help child welfare leaders streamline their procurement processes to emphasize program and policy objectives — and prioritize outcomes for kids and families.
A new report calls on child welfare systems to stop placing kids in group settings. It also shares evidence-based policy recommendations that promote family-based alternatives.
As part of the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, social service agencies across the nation can expect to see reductions in funding. Watch a webinar that lays out a plan for how child welfare agencies can manage the fiscal implications of the pandemic.
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.
Written for child welfare agencies nationwide, a new Casey Foundation fact sheet explores how kinship care can support children and how agencies can support kin families during the coronavirus pandemic.
In a webinar, experts describes how child welfare leaders can use a new resource to develop a fiscal analysis of prevention services provided under the federal Family First Prevention Services Actand shares the experience of a state leader. Watch the webinar.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation is hosting a webinar on July 22, 2020 to debut a Foundation tool and guide for child welfare leaders to plan their fiscal approaches to implementing the Family First Prevention Services Act.
