For the second year in a row, Minnesota topped the nation’s KIDS COUNT Index for overall child well-being. The state also captured top-10 spots — No. 1 in health; No. 3 in economic well-being; No. 6 in education and No. 4 in family and community.
More than 5.1 million U.S. kids have a parent who has served time. In a new report, A Shared Sentence: The Devastating Toll of Parental Incarceration on Kids, Families and Communities, the Annie E. Casey Foundation recommended policy reforms that would help millions of children who struggle with emotional and financial instability as a result of having an incarcerated parent.
In this episode of CaseyCast, the Foundation’s Lisa Hamilton enlists social worker Tanya Krupat to discuss the stigmas, struggles and solutions shaping the lives of kids who have experienced parental incarceration.
To gain a deeper understanding of how specific groups of people or specific areas are faring, it is important to disaggregate data. The Casey Foundation is promoting that idea by publishing By the Numbers, the second installment in the Race for Results Case Study Series. In the case study, the authors look at work done in Minnesota to focus on racial equity.
Podcast preview: Casey’s Lisa Hamilton talks with sociologist Manuel Pastor about America’s changing face and what it means for our future.
In a new case study for the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), Casey Foundation President & CEO Patrick McCarthy and Vice President for External Affairs Lisa Hamilton share three communications insights gained from the Foundation’s long-standing KIDS COUNT platform.
For more than 25 years, KIDS COUNT has been the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s flagship investment for providing public officials and child advocates with data, tools and policy recommendations to improve outcomes for vulnerable children.A new report tells the story of how a single data book documenting measures of child well-being tranformed into a mission-critical vehicle for building bipartisan support for proven solutions and policy change.
To get people talking, the Annie E. Casey Foundation has developed “It’s Time to Talk: How to Start Conversations About Racial Inequities.” In this report, the Foundation’s KIDS COUNT state partners in Nebraska, Wisconsin and Washington tell how thoughtful, data-driven community dialogue can move the needle toward equity and inspire leaders to convene conversations on race in their own jurisdictions.
As senior communications manager, Sue Lin Chong works to maximize the Foundation’s mission to build brighter futures for children and families. Learn more about her work in this installment of Five Questions with Casey.
Compared to kids from U.S.-born families, children in immigrant families are more likely to live in households that spend more than 30% of their income on housing (33% compared with 45%).
