NCJ Number
152586
Date Published
1994
Length
64 pages
Annotation
This is the 1993 Annual Report of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private charitable organization dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the United States.
Abstract
The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies and human-service reforms that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families. In pursuit of this goal, the Foundation makes grants that help States, cities, and communities fashion more innovative, cost-effective responses to these needs. In 1993, the Foundation expanded its grant-making in dollars and geographic scope, while sharpening the strategic focus of its work in three critical respects. First, it began to reorient its direct-service operations, Casey Family Services. In 1993, staff and advisers of Casey Family Services adopted a new 5- year operating plan that will make service innovation and experimentation the centerpiece of future operational activities. This new focus produced a family-based treatment foster care program, designed to provide resilient and stable family-based care for juveniles traditionally served in high-cost institutional settings. Second, The Foundation expanded its conception of the array of institutions, systems, and policies that must be engaged if meaningful improvements are to be secured for the greatest number of at-risk juveniles. The trustees approved long-range investment agendas in employment preparation, job development, income security, and children's healthcare. Third The Foundation inaugurated a neighborhood-level initiative called Rebuilding Communities. This 7-year initiative is designed to enable community organizations in five neighborhoods to build the leadership and organizational capacity necessary to orchestrate a continuous and comprehensive effort to strengthen the social, economic, and institutional supports for children and families. This report contains a schedule of grants and financial information.