Resources

Project Partners

A joint initiative of:

The American Humane Association

ABA, Center for Children and the Law

Annie E. Casey Foundation

Casey Family Programs

Casey Family Services

Institute for Human Services Management

The American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, the American Humane Association is the only national organization dedicated to protecting both children and animals. The association works with public and private child welfare agencies across the country to improve outcomes for children and families at risk of abuse and neglect. American Humane staff conduct program research and evaluation; provide consultation, training, technical assistance, public policy advocacy, and other services; and offer a variety of practical and scholarly publications in the area of child and family welfare. Headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, American Humane has offices in Washington, DC, and Los Angeles. Its constituency includes citizens and professional individuals and agencies concerned about child and animal welfare. Click here for more information.

(ABA), Center for Children and the Law

In 1978 the American Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division created the ABA Center on Children and the Law. From modest origins as a small legal resource center focusing exclusively on child abuse and neglect issues, the Center has grown into a full-service technical assistance, training, and research program addressing a broad spectrum of law and court-related topics affecting children. These include child abuse and neglect, adoption, adolescent health, foster and kinship care, custody and support, guardianship, missing and exploited children, and children's exposure to domestic violence. The Center’s work is funded primarily through grants and contracts from a wide variety of governmental and private sources. Its largest grant project is the National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues, a program of the Children’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families. Click here for more information.

Annie E. Casey Foundation

A private, charitable organization established in 1938 and based in Baltimore, the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) is dedicated to building better futures for disadvantaged children in the United States. Its primary mission is to promote public policy, human services reforms, and projects that help individuals and organizations meet the needs of vulnerable children and families. To realize this goal, AECF funds innovative, cost-effective state-, city-, and community-level initiatives designed to meet these needs. Over the past decade, AECF has concentrated its resources on a variety of strategies to overcome dysfunctional service systems that too often contribute to the disruption of families. In the next decade, it hopes to apply the lessons learned from past work in a set of highly focused demonstration projects aimed at restoring the strong connections between vulnerable families and supportive neighborhoods. Click here for more information.

Casey Family Programs

This 30-year-old direct service operating foundation was endowed by UPS founder Jim Casey and his family and provides an array of permanency planning services for children, youth, and families including adoption, foster-adopt, long-term foster care, kinship care, guardianship, and family reunification. Based in Seattle, CFP serves over 1,500 children from 25 offices in 13 states. Through national and local community partnerships and advocacy efforts and through serving as a center for information and learning about children in need of permanent family connections, CFP aims to have a positive effect on the lives of increasing numbers of children. The foundation also is committed to helping youth in foster care make a successful transition to adulthood. Click here for more information.

Casey Family Services

Casey Family Services (CFS) is a fully licensed and accredited non-profit child welfare agency providing a broad range of programs to meet the changing needs of vulnerable children and families. Founded in 1976 solely as a source for long-term foster care, today CFS offers foster care for children, as well as post-adoption, preservation, and reunification services for families. In addition, it has established a number of specialized and innovative community-based programs to help strengthen families and enable parents to provide the healthy, nurturing environments their children need to grow and thrive. Headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut, with divisions in Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont, CFS operates as the direct service arm of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Click here more information.

Institute for Human Services Management

The Institute for Human Services Management (IHSM) is a national consulting firm that specializes in children's services, including systems reform and integration, management, quality assurance and contracting, class action lawsuit reforms, outcomes measurement, federal program and audit requirements, and federal fund maximization through Title IV-E and Medicaid. All IHSM staff members have government experience at the federal, state, or local level, and have extensive experience in cross-systems design and finance. In the last 15 years, IHSM staff members have worked with state and county public child- and family-serving agencies, including child welfare, juvenile justice, health, mental health, and education in over 40 states, as well as with private agencies throughout the country. Several reform-oriented foundations, including the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Casey Family Programs, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trust, and many local foundations, have used IHSM's expertise to assist with systems reform and financing issues.