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.
In a recorded webinar, a child welfare leader discusses how to keep elements of a preventive practice model in mind while dealing with the challenges and immediate needs of the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch the webinar now.
Every year in America, too many young adults leave foster care without a family or the opportunities needed to succeed. Yet, child welfare professionals and caregivers can help these youth better navigate the path toward a healthy adulthood — and a new report tells how.
This is the first in a four-part series about Casebook, a state-of-the-art tool to help child welfare workers track and improve results for children in their care. In this installment, learn about the inspiration for Casebook and the product's beginnings.
This video tells the story of Leah and how she reunified with her birth mom through services provided by the Foundation's former direct service agency.
This video — shown in nine chapters — is an inside look at the critical steps in the Permanency Teaming component of the Lifelong Families Model.
This video provides an inside look at the central component of the Lifelong Families Model — Permanency Teaming — while highlighting how the team discussion addresses other core components of the model.
This video shares the story of several young people from foster care who have achieved permanence and what it means for each of them.
This video provides an overview of Lifelong Families, a practice model developed and tested by our former direct service agency.
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.
Practice Guide
This child welfare training manual presents a comprehensive 2-day curriculum on the Lifelong Families permanency model for social worker training. It includes agenda, assignments, presentations, handouts, daily modules with timetable and more.
