John Kelly

Weekly Notes-Nov. 14

JJ Today will start using Friday to update readers on media coverage and other interesting juvenile justice news from the week. Here...

Q&A: Texas Youth Commissioner Cherie Townsend

It’s been a long two years for the Texas Youth Commission. Pick a bad thing that happens in JJ and it has...

JJ Under Obama: The Dialogue Begins

“You just witnessed a whole lot of pent-up energy.” That was how former OJJDP Administrator Shay Bilchik began his short address Thursday...

How to Keep Juveniles In the Education Mix

Not going to lie: Before this week, JJ Today had not heard of the National Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center for the...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Atlantic Philanthropies Hires New Children and Youth Director

The Atlantic Philanthropies, an international grant maker with assets of $3.3 billion, has hired Donna Lawrence to oversee its disadvantaged children and...

News

Tale of Two Reforms: MacArthur’s ambitious plan spurs changes and criticism

Some of the most tangible results of Pennsylvania’s Models for Change Initiative (MFC) could fit in your briefcase. It’s just two documents....

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Tale of Two Reforms: Annie E. Casey’s JDAI aims to reduce detention. Could it spread nationwide?

The daily juvenile detention population in Santa Clara County, Calif., has fallen 53 percent since 2001. Over the same time, the daily...

► Newsmakers

Newsmakers for November 2008

Nonprofits It’s out with the old and in with the new at the Oakland, Calif.-based National Council on Crime and Delinquency...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Mi Casa

Standing on their own: Youths at Mi Casa, where those aging out of foster care develop skills to make it on their...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Fred Long

Fred Long Youth Leader IIUCAN (Uhlich Children’s Advantage Network)Chicago(773) 588-0180http://www.ucanchicago.org Age: 29 Salary: $31,000 About UCAN: The organization is a multiservice nonprofit...

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Discontent on DMC

[Correction: Because of an editing error, a sidebar story to November’s “Tale of Two Reforms,” titled “Discontent on DMC,” referred to a...

Coburn Lays Smack-Down on DOJ

Sen. James Coburn (R-Okla.) released Justice Denied this week, a report that paints a rather damning picture of budgetary whims at the...

Questions for a Prisoner

Richard Peña turned 38 last month, marking the 16th year of his life spent as Prisoner 93R2859 in New York’s prison system....

So Many New-Guys, in So Little Time

We mention a few new state JJ leaders in the Newsmakers column of November’s Youth Today: “In Wisconsin, Margaret Carpenter is the...

Tippecanoe Watch #2: Wall Street

It’s been just over a month since we last updated you on Tippecanoe County, Ind., and its proposed new $17.3 million juvenile...

OJJDP’s 2008 Grants: First Impressions

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention released lists of all its grants for Fiscal 2008, a combination of formula funds...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Reclaiming Futures Spreading Out…Want In?

In 2001, the Princeton, N.J.-based Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced its Reclaiming Futures Initiative, which helped 10 pilot sites develop ways...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier