Southwest Border & Native Families
Child poverty rates in the U.S. Southwest Border and Indian Country are consistently higher than in the nation’s poorest metropolitan cities. These families are among the most vulnerable in the country. According to our KIDS COUNT data, children living in these communities do worse than their mainstream counterparts in nine of our ten core national indicators of child well-being. These areas are also experiencing rapid population growth. For example, 59 percent of the Latino children in the United States now live along the Southwest Border.
The Casey Foundation’s investment in these communities is grounded in our knowledge of the considerable assets these communities possess as well as their growing need, isolation, and insufficient attention from critical social, government and philanthropic entities. Our strategies include:
- Seeding and strengthening Family Economic Success initiatives;
- Generating increased co-investment throughout the region;
- Building local capacity; and
- Supporting data-based advocacy to inform and enable people to improve outcomes for these populations.
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