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.

Casey Foster Family Assessments
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.

It’s My Life: An Integrated Practice Framework for Transition Services, and Accompanying Guides
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.

A Roadmap for Learning
This practice framework is full of resources and emphasizes the educational needs of K-12 students in foster care or out-of-home care.

Endless Dreams
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.

Better Together
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.

Powerful Families
Through dynamic, free workshops, this strengths-based, family empowerment model provides parents, kinship care providers, and youth transitioning from foster care with the tools to advocate for their families’ needs.

The Breakthrough Series Collaborative
This innovative methodology to test and implement small changes in child welfare practice shows significant promise for system-wide improvements.

Knowing Who You Are
This suite of tools prepares child welfare professionals to help youth in care develop their racial and ethnic identity.

Improving Family Foster Care
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.