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About Casey Family Services
- What is Casey Family Services?
- What do you do?
- Where do you work?
- How many children and families do you serve?
- How do you support foster families?
- How many people work for Casey Family Services?
- How are you connected to the Annie E. Casey Foundation?
- What is Casey Family Programs?
About Vulnerable Children and Families
- How many children are in foster care?
- How many foster homes are available for these children?
- Can foster children be adopted?
- What types of adoption are available?
- Has the "AIDS cocktail" and other medical advances eliminated the threat of HIV/AIDS?
About Casey Family Services
1. What is Casey Family Services?
For more than 25 years, Casey Family Services has assisted vulnerable children and families. Today programs operate throughout New England and in Baltimore, Maryland. Casey Family Services is a fully licensed and accredited nonprofit 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, Casey Family Services today offers foster care for children, as well as post-adoption, preservation and reunification services for families. In addition, Casey 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.
2. What do you do?
Casey Family Services seeks to improve the lives of at-risk children and strengthen families and communities by providing high-quality, cost-effective services that advance both positive practice and sound public policy. We focus on Foster Care (including Treatment Care, Long-Term Care and Transition to Adulthood services), Post-Adoption Services, Family Support (including Family Reunification, Family Preservation, Family Resource Centers, Family Connections, Teen Parents and Young Families and Family Advocacy and Support), The Center for Effective Child Welfare Practice, and Making Connections, an Annie E. Casey Foundation initiative to improve neighborhoods by promoting partnerships.
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3. Where do you work?
Headquartered in New Haven, Connecticut, Casey Family Services has operating divisions in Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
4. How many children and families do you serve?
We offer a variety of services and supports to more than 4,000 children and families.
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5. How do you support foster families?
We help foster children and families throughout the process: from recruitment and training through counseling and transition services. Our foster care services center on Treatment Care, which creates a supportive family environment for children with severe emotional challenges, Long-Term Care, professionally planned services for children who cannot live with their birth parents or extended families and are not ready for adoption, and Transition to Adulthood, helping foster children prepare for independence and providing ongoing services.
6. How many people work for Casey Family Services?
More than 300 people work for Casey Family Services in divisions operating throughout New England and in Baltimore, MD.
7. How are you connected to the Annie E. Casey Foundation?
Casey Family Services operates as the direct service arm of the Annie E. Casey Foundation (aecf.org). The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private, charitable organization dedicated to promoting public policies, human services reform and innovative programs that meet the needs of today's disadvantaged children and families in the United States.
8. What is Casey Family Programs?
Casey Family Programs provides a variety of services to children and youth including adoption, guardianship, kinship care and family reunification. Headquarters in Seattle, Washington, Casey Family Programs has field offices in Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Washington and Wyoming.
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About Vulnerable Children and Families
1. How many children are in foster care?
There are approximately 560,000 children and teens in the U.S. foster care system. Since 1987 the number of children in foster care has doubled, and the average time a child remains in foster care has lengthened to nearly three years.
2. How many foster homes are available for these children?
As of September 2000, there were approximately 142,000 licensed foster homes available. There are fewer licensed foster homes today than there were in 1985 despite the huge increase in the number of children in foster care.
3. Can foster children be adopted?
Currently, about 20 percent of foster children--110,000--are eligible for adoption.
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4. What types of adoption are available?
You can adopt a child from foster care, adopt an infant through a private or public agency, or adopt a child from another country.
5. Has the "AIDS cocktail" and other medical advances eliminated the threat of HIV/AIDS?
No. HIV/AIDS continues to be a serious health risk and the drugs that prolong the lives of HIV/AIDS patients do not eliminate the impact of the disease on the families, especially children, of AIDS patients. More programs like Family Connections, which address the needs of families affected by HIV/AIDS, are desperately needed.
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