These resources are practice-focused and results-oriented. They represent the premiere offerings of Casey Family Programs. To encourage innovation and collaboration across agencies that serve youth, we offer them free of charge. Use these tools and resources in your daily work with youth and families to:
- Improve the foster care experience and well-being of young people
- Assess and develop client strengths
- Define and document outcomes for your agency's target populations
Casey Life Skills
These free, online tools allow youth to assess and develop their strengths in life skills including money management, work and study habits, self-care, and readiness for seeking a job and housing.
These free, online tools allow foster parent applicants to self report on their strengths and training needs in areas of foster child development, caring for challenging children, worker and agency challenges, co-parenting, and more.
This holistic, integrated practice framework for transition services outlines practice guidelines and ways to measure outcomes in transition services. The accompanying resource guides provide strategies and tips in the areas of employment, housing, and postsecondary education and training.
This practice framework is full of resources and emphasizes the educational needs of K-12 students in foster care or out-of-home care.
This video and training curriculum informs teachers about the unique educational needs of youth in foster care and offers policies, procedures, and practices that can improve educational success.
In this facilitated workshop, child welfare professionals and youth formerly in care (alumni) learn how to effectively and respectfully collaborate to improve child welfare practices and policies.
This innovative methodology to test and implement small changes in child welfare practice shows significant promise for system-wide improvements.
This suite of tools prepares child welfare professionals to help youth in care develop their racial and ethnic identity.
The Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study analyzes how youth formerly in care (alumni) are faring as adults and what changes in foster care services could improve their lives.
For an overview of Casey's premier professional resources, download the Tools and Resources Brouchure. For a comprehensive collection of Casey's publications, initiatives, tools, stories, events, and links, go to the Resources library.