Blog Post
Fiscal Analysis Shows “When Child Welfare Works” Recommendations Add Up
Child Trends reviews the Casey Foundation's proposal to reform child welfare financing, and our recommendations are found to be sound.
Blog Post
Child Trends reviews the Casey Foundation's proposal to reform child welfare financing, and our recommendations are found to be sound.
A new infographic from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative shows the high cost of doing nothing about our federal financing system for child welfare.
Foster care is a temporary living situation for children whose parents can't take care of them and whose need for care has come to the attention of child welfare. Learn more about foster care and foster parents here.
The Casey Foundation and the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative offer recommendations that would transform federal funding for child welfare systems to support better outcomes for kids and families while maintaining the existing overall funding level.
At a Capitol Hill policy briefing, the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative presented a new approach to reforming federal financing to encourage states to improve their child welfare practices.
Blog Post
This handout summarizes policy recommendations for realigning federal child welfare financing to support best practices in four key areas.
Presentation
Policy recommendations designed to transform federal funding to support best practices in child welfare were the focus of this presentation delivered by Tracey Feild and Patrick McCarthy at an October 23, 2013, briefing on Capitol Hill.
Beadsie Woo, senior associate in Casey's Center for Community and Economic Opportunity, discusses building and protecting the credit of youth in foster care.
Led by the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, Success Beyond 18 is a national campaign to build a better path for young people transitioning from foster care to adulthood.
The Adolescent Brain: New Research and Its Implications for Young People Transitioning from Foster Care, a report released by the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, synthesizes neuroscience research confirming that in the teenage years the brain undergoes a period of development – and a window of learning opportunity – similar to the early years of childhood.
