JDAI is a site-based effort to reduce the use of juvenile detention — the holding of youth before adjudication — and increase more effective interventions. Learn more about what happens in a juvenile detention center and the importance of juvenile detention alternatives now!
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.
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.
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The Casey Foundation recently announced the second class of its Leadership Institute for State-based Advocates.
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.
This report — tailor-made for the Affordable Care Act era — tells how four tax-preparation programs are breaking the mold and tackling the world of health care enrollment. Readers will learn the challenges and opportunities associated with such a move, which has the potential to help millions of low-income Americans take a critical first step toward a healthier future.
This report introduces new evidence on the widespread violence in juvenile detention centers. Learn more about the uncovered problems with juvenile detention centers in 39 states now.
The 2013 American Community Survey data show the first decline in the national child poverty rate since it began to rise in 2008. Although many cities also experienced declines between 2012 and 2013, the child poverty rate in the majority of America’s largest cities has not yet returned to prerecession levels.
