The Annie E. Casey Foundation's Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative is a site-based effort to reduce the use of detention — the holding of youth before adjudication — and increase more effective interventions.
A jurisdiction-level reform effort to reduce the number of youth in correctional facilities and other out-of-home placements. Learn more about what can be done to reduce youth incarceration 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.
An effective strategy to assist low-income individuals and families with reaching financial stability and moving up the economic ladder.
Sixteen leaders from across the country have been named to the 2007-2008 class of the Children and Family Fellowship.
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Recent data show that the rate of homeownership is dropping in the U.S., which can prevent families from building assests and moving toward financial security.
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Marion County, Indiana, and Ramsey County, Minnesota, highlighted their success with detention reform in recent newsletters.
This report is a series of 50 state-specific papers providing information about the status of immigrant families in each state.
To mark the 25th anniversary of our KIDS COUNT initiative, this is the first in a series of articles chronicling how selected themes of the KIDS COUNT Data Book helped define a generation of work at the Casey Foundation and shape the field.
