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.

Children of color are over-represented in child welfare systems. In foster care, they suffer far worse outcomes—in terms of physical and mental health, educational performance, and access to basic services and resources. Six organizations have joined the alliance to address these racial inequities.

Chronicles preserve the lessons of the past to help child welfare systems improve the lives of children and
families in the future.

This plan makes the case for focusing on the economic success of youth leaving foster care. It seeks to improve their economic well-being and financial success, and offers a co-investment work plan for foundations and philanthropists.

The US Department of Labor sponsored programs in five states to improve the employment and education outcomes of young people exiting foster 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.

These studies document the life experiences and success in adulthood of two thousand alumni of out-of-home care.

This forum focused on how immigration issues will impact Casey Family Programs’ 2020 Strategy to safely reduce the number of children in the child welfare system.

A suite of products for social workers to help youth in care expand their awareness of racial and ethnic identity.

National Foster Care Month in May provides an opportunity for people all across the nation to get involved, whether as foster parents, volunteers, mentors, employers, or in other ways.

A partnership of 12 organizations working to ensure successful educational outcomes for children and youth in foster care across the country.

Peer Technical Assistance (Peer TA) is a structured opportunity for teams of people from different jurisdictions to learn from each other’s experiences. Casey Family Programs convenes such teams to develop plans that help improve outcomes for children and families.

This awareness campaign includes television and radio ads, as well as billboards, bus ads, and posters encouraging viewers to get involved in the lives of children and youth in foster care. Raise Your Hand, Raise Awareness, Raise Your Voice.

The REACH Institute, in collaboration with Casey Family Programs, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Harvard Medical School, Division of Trauma Psychiatry of the North Shore‐LIJ Health System, and Columbia University, has developed resources to help child welfare agencies address the mental health needs of youth in foster care.

Funded by the MacArthur Foundation, this network seeks to identify effective mental health treatments for youth in care and implement these practices in youth-serving agencies.

Casey Family Programs’ Board of Trustees has established the Ruth Massinga Awards in commemoration of Ruth Massinga’s relentless advocacy on behalf of constituents of the child welfare system, particularly youth in care and alumni.

Lodestar helps adoptive parents, kinship caregivers and guardians in Phoenix connect to resources they need and to each other.

The KARE Family Center in Tucson offers one-stop support and services for relatives and family friends caring for youth under age 18, as well as for people who have adopted children from within or outside their family.

KIA organizes, trains and supports caregivers caring for their relatives' children in South Los Angeles.

In two south Los Angeles neighborhoods, Casey Family Programs is working with other agencies and nonprofits to build healthy, vigilant, stable communities where families thrive.

Through PASC, young people in foster care seek employment, find housing, gain access to health and mental health benefits, and research scholarships and information about higher education.

Partnership for Strong Families works with Florida’s Department of Children and Families to provide comprehensive community-centered child welfare services to children and families living in the northeast region of the state.

TAP is the Boise Field office's permanency planning and independent living technical assistance program.

San Antonio's Community Transition Services Center addresses the needs of young people ages 18 to 25 who have transitioned out of foster care in Baxer County, Texas.

A group of non-profit and governmental agencies, relative caregivers, and organizations from the greater Austin area who joined forces in 2003 to assist kinship families in gaining access to much needed community resources.

San Antonio's collaborations with a wide-ranging coalition of public and private agencies.

This video and discussion guide features the stories of three families who were reunited through the Child Protective Services Reintegration Pilot Project.

Keeping children with their extended families and avoiding foster care is the goal of Yakima's KINdred Spirits. The initiative helps kinship families through their everyday challenges. It offers services to American Indians of any tribe living on the Yakama Indian reservation and on ancestral lands ceded to the U.S. government, which covers most of Central Washington.

The coalition works to undo the effects of institutional racism in the child welfare system.