Research

Making informed decisions about child welfare

Casey Family Programs’ research, evaluation, and data analysis activities respond to public child welfare jurisdiction needs and increase capacity for:

  • Data-driven decision making
  • Evaluation
  • Performance monitoring

We contribute to a knowledge base for preventing child maltreatment, accelerating permanency, and improving the well-being of children and families involved with child welfare, and we document the foundation's progress toward reaching its objectives.

 

Foster Care by the Numbers

Federal demographic data on the foster care population and outcome statistics derived from various studies

Child Welfare Fact Sheet

Statistics that illustrate trends and issues in child welfare

Peer-Reviewed Articles

A bibliography of peer-reviewed articles published in scholarly journals by Casey Family Programs researchers

New Report