Child Welfare Strategy Group
Practice and policy experts work with public systems to improve outcomes for children involved with child welfare systems.
Practice and policy experts work with public systems to improve outcomes for children involved with child welfare systems.
A national and state-based initiative that unites the people, public systems and resources necessary to help young people transition from foster care to adulthood. Learn more about the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative now.
A group of child advocacy and research organizations representing every state and using data to promote smart policies on issues ranging from child welfare and juvenile justice to education and economic opportunity.
Casey Family Services, a Foundation-sponsored private agency, provided child welfare services in New England and Baltimore. During its 36-year history, the agency developed the Lifelong Families practice model to connect children in foster care to enduring families. The Foundation continues to make available its research, videos, publications and other information related to foster care.
The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading in New Britain, Connecticut, is coordinating services and supports for children from birth to age 8 in an effort to boost the district’s third-grade reading scores, which are the lowest in the state.
Read about The Broncheros, a family who has experienced success using Casey’s Lifelong Families model, which works to ensure that all children exit foster care to permanent, loving families and get the support needed to sustain them.
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.
Read about how the Annie E. Casey Foundation is working to support interventions that reduce congregate care from its current level of 16% of all foster care placements nationally to about 5 to 10% in the next five years and to move those children as quickly as possible toward lifelong family connections and permanent homes.
This paper reviews the many programs and activities offered to increase and enhance the life skills of youth in care.
Interview
Bart Lubow, director of Casey’s Juvenile Justice Strategy Group, talks about reducing the reliance on secure detention for youth.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation will allocate an additional $25 million for social investments – a set of strategies that would use endowment dollars to generate financial returns as well as social returns that advance the Foundation’s mission to improve the lives of vulnerable children and families.
In order to shift to a grantmaking strategy that will help hundreds of foster care and other nonprofit human services agencies adopt innovative, proven approaches to improve child welfare practices, the Annie E. Casey Foundation will discontinue providing direct services through Casey Family Services.
Eighteen leaders from across the country have been named to the 2010-2011 class of the Children and Family Fellowship.
