John Kelly

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Funds Available at SAMHSA, OJJDP; Young Teens Sentenced to Die in Prison; New Boss at ETA; and more

A few federal funding notices and some interesting stories on the state level this week: ***The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...

JJ Today on Twitter

Readers can now follow JJ Today on Twitter, where we will immediately send out a quick update every time a new piece...

Two More names for OJJDP Administrator

Corrected April 22 JJ Today has heard two more names thrown around for the top job at the Office of Juvenile Justice...

Weekly Notes: Great Piece by JPI; Tribal Program Money Available; Luzerne Developments; and more

***It isn’t completely focused on juvenile offenders, but the piece on crime and Baltimore put out by the Justice Policy Institute this...

► Reports

Bearing Witness

This piece blends personal accounts with data and recommendations, which combined produce a piece that serves both as an indictment, and a...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Help Decide Who Gets Stimulus Grants

Several federal agencies are looking for peer and grant reviewers to help with the increased volume of solicitations for the stimulus funds....

Two Good After-School Advocacy Jobs Open Up

Erika Argersinger of the AfterSchool Alliance is moving out of the nation’s capital, so her policy director position is open at the...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Conference Call on Summer Learning Funds Friday (Must RSVP Today!)

Johns Hopkins University’s National Center for Summer Learning will host a conference call Friday at 1 p.m. about how to access funds...

The Luzerne Scandal: More Questions for the Juvenile Justice Field

There’s so much to say about the judges’ scandal in Luzerne, Pa. Our front-page story in April focused on the most telling...

News

Zero Tolerance Breeds Zero Justice

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A poem on the wall of PA Child Care, a privately owned juvenile detention facility on the outskirts of...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Help Decide Who Gets Grants

Several federal agencies are looking for peer and grant reviewers to help with the increased volume of solicitations for the stimulus funds....

► Newsmakers

Newsmakers for April 2009

Nonprofits Former attorney general Alberto Gonzales may be having a hard time finding a job (according to The New York Times), but...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Weekly Notes: Drug Court Funding; JJDPA Reintroduced; Missouri Model Profiled in NYT; and More

Apologies for the absence of Weekly Notes for the past couple weeks. JJ Today has been hard at work on a story...

New Contender for OJJDP Job?

Another contender for the top spot at the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) has emerged of late: Child Welfare...

OJJDP to Take Bids on Stimulus Mentoring Money (Updated)

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is currently developing a solicitation for proposals to spend local mentoring funds carved out...

OJJDP to Take Bids on Stimulus Mentoring Money

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is currently developing a solicitation for proposals to spend local mentoring funds carved out...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier