Casey Family Programs' Annual Report.

This report presents strategies to influence systems change by enhancing the way information is exchanged across systems and by coordinating resources and advocacy around educational issues.

Published by the Education Advisory Board, this report provides key observations to help school administrators give better support to students emerging from foster care.

In Alameda and Los Angeles counties, children are finding safe, loving homes because child welfare funding requirements permit innovative solutions.

This report focuses on the inspiring story of progress and change made by the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) of Alameda County, California in partnership with Casey Family Programs.

Since 2006, the COPES program has fostered positive outcomes for children of incarcerated parents and their families. This program evaluation report was published in 2009 to foster accountability, understand the program's impact, and gather information for program improvement purposes.

Children of color account for 42 percent of the US child population yet make up 57 percent of all children in foster care. This two-page policy brief presents the facts about disproportionality, and offers promising practices and recommendations to help reduce racial disparities in child welfare.

A follow-up to the midcourse report, this one-year report takes a look at how PIDP networks are working in Los Angeles County's complex multicultural communities.

This document explains how the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act (H.R. 6893/P.L. 110-351) benefits young people in care.

GetSET helps youth in foster care become more self-sufficient as they prepare to transition to independent living.

All children deserve to grow up in a forever family. This resource illustrates how life is different for the 496,000 children in foster care today.

Learn what happens in Child Protective Services and Child Welfare Courts once a report of abuse or neglect is made.

This fact sheet describes the challenges and opportunities facing child welfare systems as a result of today's demographic changes.

This fact sheet provides data-based context about the growing population of Latino children who are served by the child welfare system.

Mental health screening and assessment, psychosocial interventions, psychopharmacological interventions, and parent engagement and support for child welfare professionals.

The Prevention Initiative Demonstration Program is designed to address the unique needs and resources of the different regions of LA County. This report describes reform efforts and prevention activities undertaken by the program in Feb. 2008.

How Casey Family Programs worked with the Georgia Department of Human Services (DHS) to address permanency for nearly 500 children who had been in foster care for long periods of time.

A follow-up to the midcourse report, this one-year report takes a look at how PIDP networks are working in Los Angeles County's complex multicultural communities.

This guide is for or financial aid professionals and child welfare advocates working with youth from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth who are pursuing postsecondary education or training.

This report estimates that the KARE Center in Tucson, Ariz., saves $4.2 million each year by keeping youth at home with kinship caregivers.

These two-page fact sheets describe Casey's investments to serve children, strengthen families, and improve child welfare systems across the country. They also provide general data about the foster care population in each state.

Lessons learned through implementation of flexible funding in Los Angeles and Alameda counties, 2008 and 2009.

This report chronicles the first year of the Prevention Initiative Demonstration Project, headed by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).

This report describes efforts by Casey Family Programs, Child Protective Services, American Human and American Public Human Services Association to meet legislative mandates and safely reduce the number of children in foster care.

This report from the Washington State Institute for Public Policy was commissioned by Casey Family Programs. It identifies some of the most cost-effective strategies for safely reducing out-of-home placements in child welfare.

This report documents the successes and challenges of moving children with complex mental and behavioral needs out of group homes or residential treatment centers and back to their families and communities.

Learn how advocates within nonprofit organizations across the country are addressing challenges faced by the 496,000 children in foster care today.

Learn how corporations and foundations are making smart investments to tackle challenges faced by the 496,000 children in foster care today.

By the year 2020, Casey Family Programs aims to reduce the number of children in foster care across the nation by 50 percent. The foundation also aims to improve self-sufficiency for those who remain in the system. Read this one-page flyer to learn more about Casey's strategies for achieving the foundation's 2020 vision.

These briefs link trends and practice improvements to successful outcomes for children in foster care. Casey Family Programs and other jurisdictions will use these positive results to inform and improve other child welfare systems efforts across the country.

Published in 2008, this checklist helps courts meet the educational needs of children and youth in foster care.

Outcomes and lessons learned from an initiative designed to develop, test, and spread practices that address the over-representation of children of color in child welfare.

This study examines the experience of young people while they were in care with Casey Family Programs. It also analyzes their outcomes after leaving care. Casey's Young Adult Survey has been conducted every year between 2004 and 2006. This summary report includes combined findings for all three years of data collection.

This white paper outlines five key principles to help guide state and federal policy makers in their decisions about how best to finance America's child welfare systems.

This paper provides an economic perspective on discussions about early childhood policy. It makes a case for supporting social programs focused on prevention, especially during childhood, rather than later-in-life remediation.

This fact sheet describes the educational issues facing children and youth in foster and out-of-home care.

Produced by the National Working Group on Foster Care and Education, this brochure lists tools and resources to help increase the educational success of children in child welfare.

These reports assess the outcomes of youth from foster care who participated in employment and education programs sponsored by the US Department of Labor.

This white paper presents Casey Family Programs' recommendations for federal policies to help improve outcomes for older youth in foster care.

This white paper presents Casey Family Programs recommendations for key changes in federal policy to help more children benefit from a type of care that we know works.

In 2007, Casey Family Programs conducted a process evaluation of the Neighborhood Based Prevention initiative in south Los Angeles' Norwood neighborhood. The evaluation analyzed the initiative’s strengths and limitations. This reports presents the evaluation results, providing guidance to the initiatives’ participants about the elements that should be preserved or improved.

This paper was published in January 2008 by the Casey-CSSP Alliance for Racial Equity in Child Welfare. It draws on studies of data gathered during the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) to examine child welfare in the context of race and ethnicity.

This guide describes how to collect and share information to improve educational outcomes for children in foster care.

A joint publication of Casey Family Programs and Foster Care Alumni of America, this 12-page strategic sharing booklet is for those who want to learn more about using their personal stories to effect change, while at the same time protecting their own well being.

This framework provides program development tools for college counselors, administrators, professors, and staff. It helps education professionals define a plan for improving their institution’s support for students from foster care.

Many child welfare professionals are familiar with racial disproportionality, the overrepresentation of children of color in the child welfare system. Based on recent NSCAW data, this study examines disproportionality in children remaining in the home following a maltreatment investigation-an understudied but high-risk population.

Special analyses of the Casey National Alumni Study examine the long-term mental health, education, and employment outcomes for American Indian and Alaska Native alumni of foster care. This brief report summarizes the demographics, risk factors, foster care experiences, and outcomes for 243 AI/AN alumni and a comparison group of 574 white alumni.

This report was written by Senior Researcher Robert B. Hill, Race Matters Consortium, Westat. It was published in December 2007 by the Casey-CSSP Alliance for Racial Equity in Child Welfare.

This report details significant process enhancements arising from the application of the breakthrough series collaborative to the implementation of differential response in California.

This report is intended to be an easy-to-use resource for administrators and practitioners in the child welfare field who desire to learn about the successful strategies Breakthrough Series Collaborative teams developed to support kinship care.

This publication examines how the Chafee educational and training vouchers and other state-based supports for higher education have been working for alumni from foster care.

Published in July of 2007, this document chronicles educational reform efforts in Pima County, Arizona. It also offers some suggestions to other jurisdictions that want to design and implement their own reform initiatives.

Recommendations for the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act to improve the educational outcomes of children and youth in out-of-home care.

This publication chronicles how the Texas Department of Family & Protective Services’ Child Protective Services has worked with Casey to significantly shift its internal culture to one defined by family-focused practice.

Published in March 2007, this four-page briefing describes Casey Family Programs' commitment to helping youth and alumni of care gain employment skills.

This report presents findings from the Casey Field Office Mental Health study. With assistance from Casey Family Programs' direct services offices, interviewers from the University of Michigan completed interviews with 188 adolescents in Casey care in summer and fall 2006. The survey included questions about mental health, spirituality, ethnic identity, gender identity, and sexual orientation.

This paper explores why a focus on minimizing placement change should be a vital aspect of permanency planning.

This report identifies the strengths and needs of families and children in SPA 8. This community assessment will help partners in Casey's neighborhood based prevention initiative address needs while building upon family and community strengths.

This report identifies the strengths and needs of families and children in Los Angeles County's SPA 6. This community assessment will help partners in Casey's neighborhood based prevention initiative address needs while building upon family and community strengths.

Read a four-page briefing on an innovative model of quality improvement that uses small, rapid tests of change that result in broad, sustainable system improvements in child welfare.

How Casey Family Programs helps youth in care and alumni succeed in K-12 and postsecondary education and training.

This four-page briefing describes how Casey formalized its work with alumni in 2000, and how it has actively incorporated alumni perspectives into its work in a variety of ways.

This four-page briefing describes how Casey creates tools and resources directed to transitioning youth and to the professionals, caregivers, legislators, and advisors that directly and indirectly support these youth.

This four-page briefing describes how Casey is raising awareness, creating cultural change, and improving services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth and families in foster care.

Based on the It’s My Life transition framework, this guide helps child welfare professionals and educators prepare young people from foster care academically, financially, and emotionally for postsecondary education and training success. Published in 2006 by Casey Family Programs, It’s My Life: Postsecondary Education and Training is available in print and as a downloadable PDF.

Published in 2006, this review surveys major findings gleaned from studies about the evidence base for mental health care and about related class action law suits. The review also outlines steps that will improve the mental health services delivered to children in foster care.

Published in 2006, this report from the Casey-CSSP Alliance for Racial Equity in Child Welfare highlights the work of ten jurisdictions that are committed to reducing racial disproportionality and disparity in their child welfare systems.

More than half of the 500,000 children in foster care on any day in America come from ethnic minority families even though children from minority communities make up less than half the children in this country. Why are so many children of color in the child welfare system? This paper is an extensive study of the research available on this topic.

The breakthrough series collaborative methodology shows significant promise for bridging the gaps between best practices and actual practice. This 2005 report on recruitment and retention of foster families illustrates the use of the methodology and describes successful strategies and lessons learned.

Read a 4-page briefing that tells the story of Casey's increasing involvement in communities of color, and of the changes it has effected since 1975 in services to youth, tools and resources for caseworkers, and state, tribal, and federal advocacy efforts.

Read a 4-page briefing recapping the adoption of a family-centered approach to child welfare in Texas. For more information about this approach, download a 58-page report by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.

An FAQ document designed to assist child welfare professionals, advocates, and young people to use and understand the Chafee Foster Care Independence Program and the Chafee Education and Training Voucher Program.

Released in April 2005, this study presents findings from the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study. It details how youth who were placed in foster care are faring as adults and what changes in foster care services could improve their lives. Casey, Harvard Medical School, and the state agencies of Washington and Oregon collaborated on this study.

Expanding on the It’s My Life transition framework, this guide helps child welfare professionals prepare young people to find, get, and keep housing. It’s My Life: Housing was published in 2005 by Casey Family Programs. It is available in printed form and for download in PDF format.

Statistics about adult incarceration in the United States. Learn how incarceration affects children and families left behind, and particularly children in foster care.

This report brings to the forefront of social policy and practice the unique needs of kinship families and children.

Expanding on the It’s My Life transition framework, this guide to employment and career development helps child welfare professionals prepare young people for success in the workplace. It’s My Life: Employment was published in 2004 by Casey Family Programs. It is available in printed form and for download in PDF format.

A Road Map for Learning is a guide for everyone working towards successful educational outcomes for youth in foster care or out-of-home care. The guide was published in 2004 by Casey Family Programs, and is available as a 136-page book or as a downloadable PDF file.

This report presents findings from the Casey National Alumni study. The study examined case records and interviews of 1,087 Casey foster-care alumni who were served between 1966 and 1998. An additional summary published with this report reveals high rates of mental health disorders among alumni.

A holistic approach for those who play a role in how young adults envision and achieve success in adulthood.