John Kelly

Posts By John Kelly

• Research

  Weekly Notes: Illinois juvenile justice commission sells report well; Walsh Act update; and more

  ***As we write, Congress is playing a lively game of partisan chicken over a deal to fund the government for fiscal 2012...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Potential 2012 Appropriations Deal A Vague and Mixed Bag for Youth Programs

  Note: This story was corrected to reflect an accurate figure for the Corporation for National and Community Service Head Start is poised...

• News

  Illinois Probe Finds Rushed, Unmeasured Process for Juvenile Release, Reentry and Parole

  Illinois has seen significant changes to the front-end of its juvenile justice system, but its system of releasing and assisting incarcerated juveniles...

• Weekly Notes: A lively luncheon; new Justice grants; help shape Wyoming’s new juvie center; and more

  ***A slew of juvenile justice experts were in the old capitol city this week for the MacArthur Foundation’s Models for Change conference...

• News

  Fate of Child Welfare League of America Rests with Pension Plan

  The Child Welfare League of America has taken drastic steps to stay alive as competition and the economy have driven membership down...

• News

  Keeping Foster Youths’ School Connection

  Veronica Carrillo, a veteran employee of Child Protective Services in Sacramento County, Calif., still remembers the frantic afternoons child caseworkers once devoted...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Federal Budget Watch 2012

  Congress has approved deep cuts in federal juvenile justice funding for 2012, but neither the House nor the Senate has voted on...

• News

  Q&A: H. Ted Rubin

  The oldest kids who were in the system when H. Ted Rubin was a Colorado juvenile judge are now 57 years old....

• ► Reports

  Analysis of State Bullying Laws and Policies

  U.S. Department of Education The department examined the extent to which states legislatively required schools to address bullying and what model policies...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Helpful tool to seek unlikely partners in philanthropy; psych meds in the news again; big upcoming events in D.C.; and more

  Notes is back after a week hiatus. We were going to post on Black Friday, but somebody pepper sprayed us in the...

• News

  Rate at Which Psychiatric Meds Are Prescribed to Foster Youth Alarms GAO

  The Obama Administration told states last week of its intention to find out more about their practices when it came to monitoring...

• News

  Karen Mathis Leaving Big Brothers Big Sisters of America

  Note: This story was updated on Dec. 1 with more up-to-date information on the organization’s finances. Big Brothers Big Sisters of America...

• News

  A New Push for Youth Worker Development, Credentials

  A collection of youth work consultants and service providers has launched a fresh offensive at an old objective: Making the case for...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Deborah Jeffrey Nominated for Inspector General Job at CNCS

  President Barack Obama nominated Deborah Jeffrey last week to serve as Inspector General for the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS),...

• ► Reports

  Federal Folly

  Justice Policy Institute JPI argues that the spending in the 2012 Justice Department appropriations will help fuel unnecessary incarceration brought on by...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Federal juvenile justice money lacks certainty, champions; documentary on kids in adult prison to air Sunday; and more

   “Beginning of the end?” –Joe Vignati, Georgia Juvenile Justice Specialist “We are finding out we don’t have too many friends” – Liz...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Congress Makes Further Cuts to Juvenile Justice Funding

  Note: This story was updated on Nov. 18 House and Senate appropriations leaders finalized a “minibus” spending package that further reduces the...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Tough choices loom for OJJDP on state; a look at “crossover youths”; and more

  Notes is back after a week hiatus to put some work in on the November print edition of Youth Today. Happy Veterans...

• News

  Dual Involvment in Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice Connects to Major Struggles in Adulthood

  Los Angeles youths who exit both foster care and juvenile justice earn less as young adults and cost the public more than...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Supreme Court Again Takes Up Juvenile Life Without Parole

  The U.S. Supreme Court will again consider cases that could further set limits on when life without parole sentences can be imposed...