Learn how the Annie E. Casey Foundation promotes greater use of evidence-based practice in child welfare, system reform, health, education, mental health, youth in transition, adolescent health and development and community building.
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.
An interview with Gina Miranda Samuels, researcher and associate professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago on sabbatical leave to assist in Casey's older youth and permanence efforts.
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.
A featured speaker at the Winston-Salem Foundation's annual luncheon in North Carolina, Patrick McCarthy talks about the critical need to bring community leadership to bear in supporting vulnerable youth.
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.
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 believes all children need and deserve a family, and, therefore, has invested significantly in advancing permanence for those children and young people in the foster care system. Permanence can take the form of a return to birth family, kinship care, guardianship or adoption.
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Connections to a job and caring adults made through this innovative program helped one youth put her troubles behind her and find the boost she needed to get back on track financially.
