Public benefits programs like Medicaid are essential for helping young adults and low-income families cover basic needs. However, many young people struggle to access these benefits because they don’t know about them or find the system too complicated to navigate. A new report highlights the challenges young people face in accessing public benefits and suggests ways to make the process easier.
Annie E. Casey Foundation
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Building a Brighter Future for Children, Families and Communities
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The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private national philanthropy that creates better futures for the nation’s children by strengthening families, building economic opportunities and transforming neighborhoods into safer and healthier places to live, work and grow.
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- Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice, Evidence-Based Practice, Family Economic Success, Community Change, Leadership Development, Child and Family Well-Being, Workforce Development, Early Childhood Reading, and Public Systems Consultation
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Kids thrive when they have strong, loving connections with relatives and close family friends — also known as kin. When children aren’t able to live with their parents, kinship caregivers can offer stability and connections to family, community, culture and education. Supporting these relationships is vital for children involved in the child welfare or juvenile justice systems.
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“Part of improving lives for kids — indeed, of saving kids’ lives — is to invest in child opportunity. Interventions such as increasing green space and walkability and abandoned house remediation have been shown to effectively decrease violence.”
Almost all pediatric gun injuries and deaths occur in low-opportunity neighborhoods | Opinion
inquirer.com
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"Oftentimes what pulls kids and families into these systems is unmet needs… It makes more sense for kids to have their health care tied to a health care system, not a carceral system." — Joseph E. Ribsam Jr., director of child welfare and juvenile justice policy at the Foundation. A federal law expands states’ ability to use Medicaid funds to provide behavioral and physical health services to young people as they return to their communities after incarceration.
Health care is key for youths getting out of prison. A new law helps them get it
npr.org
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A lot of us did some questionable things as teenagers, like drinking alcohol, doing drugs, and shoplifting. We’re likely not proud of these moments, but they happened, and we moved on. For some of us though, this normal adolescent boundary-testing can lead to involvement in the juvenile justice system, which is ripe with racial disparities and poor results. Nathaniel Balis, Director of the Juvenile Justice Strategy Group at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, talks with host Maya Rupert about reframing how we think about youth crime, the need for effective solutions that actually promote community safety, and how much young people need adults in their corner. Listen to this episodes of Good Things from Lemonada Media here:https://lnkd.in/gRiGD27u This episode was made possible with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, an organization that develops solutions to build a brighter future for children, youth, families and communities. Learn more at aecf.org.
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“The child is sitting on their lap while they're in class — until they need food, until they need to be changed, until they need to get down." One in 4 Texas students is raising kids while working toward their college degree. But while student parents get better grades than their classmates, they are also less likely to finish school.
A mom, a student: How a San Antonio parent juggles school, work and child care for a better future
texastribune.org
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Becoming a financially stable adult is challenging — and it’s especially hard for youth in foster care who don’t have a caregiver to help them manage their money or learn to budget. The Foundation’s Opportunity Passport® helps young people build financial stability by teaching the basics of personal finance, banking and goal setting. In 2023, 3,600 young people in the program used their savings and matched funds to invest more than $2.23 million in their futures.
How Opportunity Passport Helped Young People in Foster Care in 2023
aecf.org
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“Every student, disabled or not, needs assistance in career planning and services… It’s just that disabled students might have additional needs because of inaccessibility in our society. Our system generally is not accessible for people with disabilities to enter the workforce.”
Hundreds of thousands of students with disabilities should be getting trained for work through pre-employment transition services -- but aren't
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Each year, more than 1.6 million young people experience homelessness, foster care or incarceration while earning their K-12 education. Though their numbers exceed the population of New Hampshire, they are often overlooked in discussions about education.
How Homelessness and Systems Involvement Affect K–12 Success
aecf.org
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Join us in congratulating Lisa Lawson of the Annie E. Casey Foundation on being appointed to Chair of the Richmond Fed Boards of Directors! Learn more about our boards here: https://bit.ly/3Z5PI6q
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