INFORMATION ABOUT OUR PROJECT PARTNERS

Casey Family Programs was established by United Parcel Service founder Jim Casey, Casey Family Programs is a Seattle-based national operating foundation that has served children, youth, and families in the child welfare system since 1966. Casey Family Programs’ mission is to provide and improve—and ultimately to prevent the need for—foster care. It operates in two ways. It provides direct services, and it promotes advances in child-welfare practice and policy. Casey Family Programs collaborates with foster, kinship, and adoptive parents to provide safe, loving homes for youth in our direct care. It also collaborates with counties, states, and American Indian and Alaska Native tribes to improve services and outcomes for the more than 500,000 young people in out-of-home care across the U.S. Drawing on four decades of front-line work with families and alumni of foster care, it develop tools, practices, and policies to nurture all youth in care and to help parents strengthen families at risk of needing foster care.

ABA Center on Children and the Law aims to improve children's lives through advances in law, justice, knowledge, practice and public policy. In 1978, the American Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division created the ABA Center on Children and the Law. From modest origins as a small legal resource center focusing exclusively on child abuse and neglect issues, the Center has grown into a full-service technical assistance, training, and research program addressing a broad spectrum of law and court-related topics affecting children. These include child abuse and neglect, adoption, adolescent and infant/toddler health, foster and kinship care, education, juvenile status offenders, custody and support, guardianship, missing and exploited children, and children's exposure to domestic violence.

Education Law Center (ELC) is a non-profit legal advocacy and educational organization, dedicated to ensuring that all of Pennsylvania’s children have access to a quality public education. For thirty years, ELC has worked to make good public education a reality for Pennsylvania’s most vulnerable students –poor children, children of color, kids with disabilities, English language learners, children in foster homes and institutions, and others.

Juvenile Law Center (JLC), through legal advocacy, research, publications, public education and training, works to ensure that the child welfare, juvenile justice and other public systems provide vulnerable children with the protection and services they need to become happy, healthy and productive adults. Founded in 1975 as a non-profit legal service, JLC is one of the oldest public interest law firms for children in the United States. We work on behalf of children who have come within the purview of public agencies– for example, abused or neglected children placed in foster homes, delinquent youth sent to residential treatment facilities or adult prisons, or children in placement with specialized services needs. Although JLC primarily serves the children of Pennsylvania, we are also asked to lend our expertise to national child advocacy efforts.