Posted February 5, 2025 By the Annie E. Casey Foundation Youth in the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Opportunity Passport® financial learning intervention saved more than $895,000 toward their life, schooling and career goals in 2023, new data show. Created by the Foundation’s Jim Casey Youth … Read More
Safety Permanency & Wellbeing
A Landscape Scan of Research on the K-12 Education of Young People in the United States Who Experience Foster Care, Incarceration, and/or Homelessness
Annie E. Casey Foundation – shared by the Legal Center for Foster Care and Education Every year in the United States, more than 1.6 million young people are forced to navigate their K-12 education while experiencing homelessness, foster care, and/or … Read More
Federal Update: Summary of New Federal Joint Guidance to Support Students i n Foster Care
The Legal Center for Foster Care and Education created a comprehensive summary explaining the recent joint guidance released by the U.S. Department of Education & Children’s Bureau. The guidance aims to help states and localities implement federal laws to promote school … Read More
Healthier Lives Across Generations: A Blueprint for Intergenerational Living
The Blueprint is a call to action and a strategic plan designed to promote intentional intergenerational housing and communities that foster meaningful interactions among people of all generations. Download the Report (PDF) Watch the Recording of the Release Event Download … Read More
2024 National Data Toolkit
About This Toolkit With the funding and support of the Hilton Foundation, the Legal Center for Foster Care and Education, a project of the ABA Center on Children and the Law, created this Data Toolkit to encourage child welfare and … Read More
Caught In The Middle: Louisiana Parents, Work, and the Struggle for Affordable Child Care
Nearly 10,000 independent child care businesses across the state employ over 15,000 employees and support tens of thousands of additional employees across all industries by providing early education to their young children. Yet, in 2024, Louisiana’s child care landscape continues … Read More
Louisiana Kinship Navigator
Introduction Kinship Care is the full-time care if children by relatives or others who have a kinship bond with a child and whose parents are not living in the home. You may be a grandparent, an aunt or uncle, sister … Read More
Engaging Black 2SLGBTQIA+Youth in Advocacy
Introduction Welcome to the Engaging Black 2SLGBTQIA+ Youth Implementation Guide. Created between 2020-2023 by the QIC-2SLGBTQIA+ community, this guide is a resource for professionals who are new to, or struggling with, engaging Black 2SLGBTQIA+ youth in their work. There are … Read More
Opportunities for State Leaders to Safeguard LGBTQ+ Students’ Learning, Connection, and Safety
Introduction Approximately 2 million young people identified as part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and additional identities (LGBTQ+) community in 2020, and federal data from 2021 show that 1 in 4 high school students identify as lesbian, … Read More
Employment Checklist For Students (ages 14-22) With Disabilities
Getting a job is an exciting experience that takes planning. There are important documents you may need before you can get a job. There are skills you will need to prepare you for employment, and actions that you may need … Read More