John Kelly

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

States Approaching the GAP with Caution

From a policy perspective, there is nary a person with a bad word to say about the guardianship assistance payments established by...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Weekly Notes: Funding at ACF; Children’s Rights Never Loses; Colorado Examines Racial Disparity; and more

***A few new funding announcements from the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), which may finally have a permanent boss soon. –Family...

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2009 Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces

The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption came out with its annual list of the Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces. The ranking is based on...

More on Supreme Court’s LWOP Cases

As Youth Today and myriad other news sources reported earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases that may...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

OJJDP Grants Get Claimed Before You Apply

The U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention last month issued a solicitation for field-initiated demonstration programs, which at first...

News

Spreading Goodwill for Youth

Building youth work: The Goodwill agency in Tacoma, Wash., started a YouthBuild program, showing how Goodwill can partner with other groups....

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Newsmakers for May 2009

Pamela Wilcox NONPROFITS Camp Fire USA has a temporary new leader in Pamela Wilcox, who was appointed interim CEO to fill...

Grants

Grants Awarded for May 2009

Annenberg FoundationRadnor, Pa.(610) 341-9066http://www.annenbergfoundation.org • Boys & Girls Club of Los Angeles Harbor, San Pedro, Calif., $330,000 to expand the College Bound...

Weekly Notes: ACF Funding; Michigan’s Plan for Reform; Florida’s Potential CW Drug Problem; and more

Those who have read our first subject-related blog, JJ Today, know our routine: We try to post original pieces throughout the week,...

Weekly Notes: ACF Funding; Michigan’s Plan for Reform; Florida’s Potential CW Drug Problem; and more

Those who have read our first subject-related blog, JJ Today, know our routine: We try to post original pieces throughout the week,...

Weekly Notes: Money for Mentoring; Chicago Youth and Reentry; Shakespeare for Juveniles…and more

***The Bureau of Justice Assistance is accepting proposals on mentoring money provided through the Second Chance Act (signed by former President George...

News

OIG Report Finds Flores Violated Ethics Rules

Note: This story has been corrected Federal investigators have found that J. Robert Flores violated ethics rules and used questionable grant making...

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From Corrections to Community

The study examines youths who exited Illinois correctional facilities between 1996 and 2004 (a total of 13,511 exits over those years). There...

Welcome to CW Today!

This is the first of many updates on our new online feature, CW Today. Something between a blog and a newsletter, our...

Weekly Notes: OJJDP Funding; Tuba Man’s JJ Impact in Washington; Job Opening at Berkeley; and more

**A couple of funding notices from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. First, an OJJDP grant that seems reasonably open...

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Supporting Youth in Transition to Adulthood

The report focuses particularly on “crossover youth,” who are known to the child welfare agency and have spent time in juvenile custody...

News

What the Serve America Law Says, and Does Not

President Obama’s signing of the Serve America Act last month did indeed mark a “huge day,” in the words of Public Allies...

Q&A: Shakti Belway, J.D., Author of Bearing Witness

Earlier this month, we mentioned a report about Baltimore done by the Justice Policy Institute (JPI) entitled Bearing Witness, which jumped out...

Gang Survey Released; Peer Reviewers Sought by OJJDP; Misdemeanor Arrests in Santa Clara; and more

Quick one today, we’re hard at work on some Youth Today stories (including one about Goodwill that should be of great interest...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

OJJDP Demonstration Grant RFP: Don’t Bother?

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention issued its solicitation for field-initiated demonstration programs, a piece of paper that at first...