Youth Today
Posts By John Kelly
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
OBAMA JOB WATCH
Nobody in consideration wants to talk about it. Nobody who supports someone for one of the jobs wants to be quoted. Such...
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News
Health Care Bill Could Require States to Keep Juvies on Medicaid
An amendment added to the enormous health care reform bill passed by the House Energy and Commerce Committee would require states to...
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New Mexico to Assemble Juries for Crucial JJ Hearings
An interesting decision was handed down by the New Mexico State Court of Appeals last week concerning juveniles transferred to adult courts....
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Darkness Falls on a City’s Curfew
If history is our guide, the recent elimination of Rochester’s curfew law by New York’s highest court will not be celebrated...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for August 2009
Nonprofits The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) imposed its second round of layoffs in as many years last month. The cutback...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Grants Awarded for July-August 2009
Lincoln Financial FoundationFort Wayne, Ind.http://www.lfg.com • Our Piece of the Pie, Hartford, Conn., $30,000 for the AmeriCorps program. • Boys & Girls...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
After Teen Death, Campus to Open With New Owner
Two years ago, the Bowling Brook Preparatory Academy in Maryland was shut down after the death of a teen who was being...
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Weekly Notes: OJJDP Upcoming Events; Young Children in Adult Court; Luzerne Update; and more
***There are two future events for which the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is searching for participants. The Girls...
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Some Big Cities See Crime Drop, Including Juvenile Homicides
The Washington Post ran a story last week about the mysterious case of the shrinking crime rate, a live-action drama going on...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Child Welfare: A Summer Review
With vacations and some summer projects in the works at Youth Today, it’s been awhile since we posted to the ChildWelfare Today...
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Fostering Connections Webinar Coming Up
Two national child welfare organizations are teaming up to host webinars on the many provisions of the Fostering Connections to Success and...
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Weekly Notes: New OJJDP Candidate; Summer Reading; Juvenile Sex Offender Program Shows Promise; and more
***The scuttlebutt on candidates to lead the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has died down over the summer months, but...
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JJ Recovery Act Awards, Thus Far
One would hope that the Obama administration’s top priority for juvenile justice is finding a new administrator for the Office of Juvenile...
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News
Children’s Aid Society Announces New CEO
Children’s Aid Society (CAS), which provides a range of programs for 150,000 New York City youth each year, has hired Richard Buery...
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October is Apparently National Good JJ Conference Month
The Weekly Notes grew absurdly long yesterday, so we’re mentioning these separately today. There are two conferences coming up this fall that...
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Weekly Notes: Texas bans LWOP; White House Boys; Public Welfare Foundation Grants; Why Ban-The-Box Helps Juvies
JJ Today has returned from a much-needed vacation out to Northern California. Despite trying to stay work-free, I managed to chew the...
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A Novel Approach on Litigating DMC
For 20 years, few juvenile justice systems have done little more than study the problem of disproportionate minority contact (DMC) in the...
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Litigating DMC Part Two: How It Came Together
Our previous post covered a new strategy on how to compel juvenile justice systems to address DMC rather than just study it...
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Illinois Is Down; Is Baltimore Up?
Child welfare in Illinois was in rough shape when the ACLU of Illinois filed a class-action lawsuit against the Department of Children...
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Whither, Wyoming?
More than 320 people turned out last week for the Wyoming Children’s Justice Conference, which was hosted by the Wyoming Supreme Court’s...
