Family Well-Being Strategy Group
Practice and policy experts work with public systems to improve outcomes for children involved with child welfare systems.
Our initiatives help to improve the lives of millions of children, families and communities across the country.
Jump to strategy: Child Welfare Community Change Economic Opportunity Evidence-Based Practice Expanding Opportunity for All Impact Investments Juvenile Justice KIDS COUNT and Policy Reform Leadership Development Research and Evidence
Ensuring that children grow up in families and get the help they need to heal, build lasting family relationships and reach their full potential.
Practice and policy experts work with public systems to improve outcomes for children involved with child welfare systems.
Uniting people, public systems and resources to help young people transition from foster care to adulthood — the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation is improving the neighborhoods where young people and their families live by promoting access to high-quality schools, affordable homes and good jobs. Read about our work here.
The Foundation’s commitment to community change extends to our backyard: Baltimore, our headquarters, and Atlanta, home to UPS. Our civic sites aim to improve outcomes for kids and families in high-poverty neighborhoods in these cities and identify effective tools and strategies for working with low-income families and communities nationwide. Through public, private and nonprofit partners, we’re addressing the challenges in these places in the following ways:
Public systems, schools and communities guiding public investment toward evidence-based programs that improve the growth and development of kids and youth.
Developing pathways for parents to become financially stable and support their children’s healthy development and academic success.
Strategies to help individuals and families build financial assets and become adept at managing their money responsibly.
Investments aimed at linking individuals disconnected from the workforce or school to opportunities for jobs, education and achieving the American Dream.
Using rigorously-evaluated evidence-based programs to promote child well-being, the resources from the Annie E. Casey Foundation lay the blueprints for healthy youth development.
Employing data-driven, targeted strategies, programs and resources to remove barriers and close gaps so all children, families and communities can succeed.
Investing endowment dollars to generate financial returns and positive impact to create a brighter future for children and families.
Casey's affordable housing investments develop and preserve quality housing for underserved communities. Learn more about our investment framework.
A focus of the Casey Foundation's Impact Investments program is economic opportunity. Learn more about how Impact Investments advance this objective.
Ensuring that young people exposed to the legal system can realize their potential, even when they make mistakes and violate the law in serious ways.
Diversion helps at-risk youth avoid legal harm and stigma by using community-based strategies that promote accountability without court sanctions.
JDAI helps build a more equitable youth justice system by promoting alternatives to detention, which research shows lead to better outcomes for youth.
Surveillance-based probation doesn’t support rehab. Transforming it means using targeted help to build growth and success for high-risk youth. Learn more.
Jurisdictions can use strategies to safely reduce youth incarceration — especially for kids of color — as they work to end the youth prison model.
Improving the lives of millions of children by advancing sound policy reforms informed by evidence and data. KIDS COUNT® (LA INFANCIA CUENTA™) provides legislators, public officials and child advocates with reliable data, policy recommendations and tools to advance policies that benefit children.
Our signature resources tracking the well-being of kids over time and across states, to provide information and spur action on behalf of kids and families.
A national network of child advocates uses data to push for smart policies on child welfare, juvenile justice, education and economic opportunity.
Developing the strongest, most diverse talent and equipping leaders to achieve better results so kids, families and communities thrive.
Casey's Children & Family Fellowship is an elite leadership program for executives who can steer organizations serving kids and families.
Helping leaders, organizations and groups move from intention to action for children and families.
Improving the lives of millions of children by producing evidence on ideas and programs that work.
Strengthening the field's understanding of what works for kids and families by expanding the use of sound research and effective evaluation.
Investments in policy analysis and partnerships with national organizations that strengthen the capacity of decision makers to help kids and families.
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