Rising tide of economic recovery did not lift all boats; it left millions shipwrecked, according to the 2015 KIDS COUNT Data Book. State and federal policies that focus simultaneously on children and their parents can help more families enjoy the nation’s growing prosperity.
A new three-year project funded by the Buffett Early Childhood Fund will support the use of strategies to create opportunites for children and their parents to succeed together at Educare schools in Arizona, Louisiana and Maine.
New Haven's MOMS Partnership opens a location in a local grocery store to bring support services to low-income mothers.
The nation can no longer afford to separate the support children need from the challenges their parents face if we want either to succeed.
Low-income students of color thrive in Union City, New Jersey, public schools. Journalist Soledad O'Brien shares how one city has transformed education to benefit all of its children.
New York City and Sacramento County to implement comprehensive policies to address the needs of expectant and parenting youth in foster care and their children.
Any effort to improve the lives of low-income families should include those families in discussions about overcoming the challenges they face. As experts on their situation, families — more specifically, parents — should have a place at the table in crafting solutions to their problems. A new report from Community Organizing and Family Issues captures how parents play an active, hands-on role in changing public policy and systems to benefit their children, families and communities as a whole.
The Casey Foundation hosted a Nov. 12 webinar on our new KIDS COUNT policy report, Creating Opportunity for Families: A Two-Generation Approach. The session highlighted ways the public, nonprofit and private sectors can work together to help equip the 10 million low-income families with young children in the United States with the tools they need to move out of poverty and thrive.
A new KIDS COUNT policy report makes the case for creating opportunity for families by addressing the needs of parents and their children simultaneously with a two-generation approach. Read more here.
Casi la mitad de las familias del país con niños pequeños viven en hogares de bajos ingresos y carecen de las herramientas necesarias para obtener estabilidad. Un nuevo informe de la Annie E. Casey Foundation propone un esfuerzo global para sacar a los niños de la pobreza.
