The Annie E. Casey Foundation

The Annie E. Casey Foundation and its direct services agency, Casey Family Services, are among the partner organizations involved in promoting stable and permanent family connections for children.

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Description of how a child journeys through the foster care system wih statistics of how may children are involved at each stage. About 5% of mentally ill children are placed in foster care by their parents ONLY because the parents cannot afford to pay for mental health services. There were 1993 children in foster care in Alaska in 2001