Permanence
Every child needs and deserves to grow up in a safe, loving, and nurturing family – a family whose support is unconditional and will last a lifetime. Yet for the half million children in foster care on any given day, these necessary family connections are too often lost. The Casey Foundation publishes and funds publications and multi-media to help policy-makers, practitioners, researchers and others address the challenge of providing lifelong connections for every child.
See also Our Work: Child Welfare/Permanence, an overview of Casey's investment in child welfare/permanence.
Casey Connects, Spring 2012
2012
Every child needs and deserves a permanent family whose support is unconditional. Research shows that the odds of a successful transition to adulthood are severely compromised when young people are cut off from a family environment and left to languish in group care. Focusing specifically on efforts to reduce the use of congregate care in the child welfare system, this issue of Casey Connects offers examples of how a new practice model is reducing the time kids spend in foster care; how new research on teenage brain development is promoting better policies and practices for older youth in foster care; and how jurisdictions successfully are transitioning more youth from group care to family settings.
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KIDSCOUNT Data Snapshot on Children Living in High-Poverty Communities
2012
This Data Snapshot highlights newly available national, state, and city data in the KIDS COUNT Data Center that shows a 25 percent increase in the number of children residing in areas of concentrated poverty since 2000. The snapshot indicates how high-poverty communities are harmful to children, outlines regions in which concentrated poverty has grown the most, and offers recommendations to address these issues.
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Icebreaker Meetings Toolkit: A Tool for Building Relationships Between Birth and Foster Parents
2012
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Learning While Doing in the Human Services Sector: Becoming a Learning Organization through Organizational Change
2011
This summary describes the origins, processes, and outcomes of the learning-while-doing approach and presents lessons learned that other child welfare providers and human service organizations may apply as they engage in organizational change.
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The Casey Family Services Longitudinal Study of Foster Youth Development
2011
This report benchmarks outcomes for 19-year-olds who experienced foster care with Casey Family Services by comparing the group to two relevant samples – one, a group of young adults who experienced public child welfare; the other, a nationally representative sample.
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