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Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Child Adolescent Mobile Crisis Team

Parsons Child & Family CenterAlbany, N.Y.(518) 429-2391http://www.parsonscenter.org/services/ChildAdolescentMobileTeam.asp Photo: Parsons Child and Family Center Objective: To provide a community-based response to individual child...

Grants

Grants Awarded for December 2008-January 2009

The Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationSeattle(206) 709-3100http://www.gatesfoundation.org • Lakeside School, Seattle, $4 million for general operating support. • Washington Alliance for...

► Reports

Progress Report on the Shared Youth Vision Partnership

The Shared Vision Partnership provides no money but helps states figure out how to maximize resources going toward youth populations. For example,...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

AMI, Other Alternatives to Lockup Hit Hard by State Budget Cuts

While hopes are high in Washington that the federal government will soon make inspired investments in juvenile justice, the state dollars that...

Number of Young Homicide Victims Rises

Young black males are being murdered, and being arrested for murder, at a far higher rate than they were in 2002, according...

News

Madoff Scam Claims JEHT, Picower Foundations

Youth work lost two major benefactors to the apparent Ponzi scheme created by now infamous financial manager Bernard Madoff. New York-based grant...

News

Obama’s Transition Team for Youth-Serving Agencies

Youth advocates are readying their appeals for a larger investment in youth services as members of president-elect Barack Obama’s transition team are...

News

Advocates Ask Obama for W.H. Youth Office

President-elect Barack Obama received a letter this morning, signed by hundreds of youth-serving organizations and individuals, asking for the creation of a...

Burns Releases First in Series of DMC Reports

The San Francisco-based Burns Institute (BI) has released the first installment of “Adoration of the Question,” the first in a series of...

JEHT Done in By Madoff

New York-based grant maker JEHT abruptly closed its doors today because its primary donor’s money was lost by the now infamous financial...

Weekly Notes-Dec. 11

***Last week, the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice met for its final quarterly meeting of 2008. It was the last convening of...

Tippecanoe Watch #3: We Bid You Good Day

Last time JJ Today checked with Tippecanoe County, in October, the economy had recently hit the skids. Proponents of a new juvenile...

Scott’s PROMISE Needs a Sister Act

If reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 is the gold medal for juvenile justice advocates, passage of...

JPI to States: Ignore Adam Walsh Act

JJ Today reported over the summer about some serious implications of states coming into compliance with the Adam Walsh Act, which was...

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Safety from the Public?

There are well-known criteria that often go into the decision to keep a juvenile in a detention center or commitment facility. Two...

Feedback on DMC, JJ Reform Stories

We received several letters about a package on juvenile justice reform that appeared in our print edition (“A Tale of Two Reforms,”...

Weekly Notes-Nov. 21

***The National Council in Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) released this report, which analyzes the federal gang bills introduced by Sen. Dianne Feinstein...