The Casey Foundation and the Maryland Governor’s Office for Children are launching a results-based leadership program aimed at improving academic and employment outcomes for youth ages 16 to 24 who are neither in school nor working.
One Baltimore for Jobs, an initiative supported by the Casey Foundation, has helped hundreds of young adults from disinvested city neighborhoods get jobs in construction, health care, transportation and other high-growth industries.
Casey recently teamed up with Foundation Center to create a special collection of resources focused on the millions of young people ages 16–24 who are not in school or working — often called disconnected youth.
Earlier this month, Casey hosted a webinar highlighting practical tools and solutions for integrating trauma-responsive practices into youth programs.
A Foundation webinar offers young people’s perspectives on youth engagement and retention strategies — what it took to get them involved in programs and what kept them away.
A new Casey report, Preparing for the Road Ahead: Helping Young People Transition from Foster Care to Adulthood, touts the successes and underscores the vision of the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative in helping young people in foster care socially, emotionally, financially, intellectually and physically.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation spoke with Samin Dadelahi, chief operating officer of the Wyoming Community Foundation, on why Wyoming ranks best for economic well-being of kids and families in the 2016 KIDS COUNT Data Book.
Casey senior associate Charles Rutheiser will release a new book chronicling five decades of the all-volunteer mentorship program called Sponsors for Educational Opportunity. All proceeds will benefit the program's work.
A new Foundation paper explores the idea of using collective impact strategies to better align programs, resources and knowledge to achieve greater and better results for people striving to gain a solid foothold in our country’s workforce.
A key component of the Foundation’s new Generation Work initiative is the use of positive youth development strategies. This post highlights the core principles of such strategies, which actively engage young people in learning and provide them with opportunities, such as on-the-job training or mentoring, that help foster their success.
