John Kelly

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

A Push for Investments Instead of Grants

A new financial entity – part nonprofit, part for-profit – is being pushed as the next great way to increase the...

Newsmakers for September 2008

Nonprofits Judge Patricia A. Macías, presiding judge of the 388th Family District Court in El Paso, Texas, has been elected president...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Danielle Warthen

Danielle Warthen Director of Clinical ServicesThe Children’s CenterSalt Lake City, Utah(801) 582-5534http://www.tccslc.org. Age: 26 About Children’s Center: The Children’s Center works...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Grants Awarded for September 2008

The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Flint, Mich. (810) 238-5651 http://www.mott.org •Southern Education Foundation, Atlanta, $140,000 for the Education Summers Youth Leadership...

Tippecanoe Watch #1: Background

This is the first of what we envision as a series of occasional updates about the design and development of a juvenile...

Weed and Seed Whacked

We mentioned earlier this month that the Community Capacity Development Office (CCDO) at the Office of Justice Programs was fielding applications for...

Why Does the Poorest State Hate Free Money?

Heard this from a JJ advocate, and we had to check for ourselves: Mississippi is out of compliance on three of the...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Administration Won’t Enforce New SCHIP Rules

The Bush Administration will not crack down on states that are out of compliance with its controversial rules on state children’s health...

Got Something to Present?

The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and the National District Attorneys Association are looking for presenters for the 2009...

Who’s Doing PYD?

Following Jeff Butts’ plea for a larger focus on positive youth development approaches to working with juvenile offenders, we asked if anyone...

NY Times All Over Juvenile Justice

What got into the New York Times editorial board? They have taken up the cause of juvenile justice reform with a vengeance....

News

Strip2Clothe Campaign a Lesson for National Membership Orgs

A campaign to distribute clothes for homeless and runaway children turned into a lesson in the virtues of private discussions among nonprofit...

With Walsh Act, State Interpretations Play Big Role

I spent some time looking at the regulations on sex offender registries contained within the Adam Walsh Act, specifically those that pertain...

Report: Adult Jails Don’t Fix Youth, and Juvenile Lockups Don’t Scare Them

OJJDP looked at pretty much every published study that measures the effect of transferring juvenile offenders into adult court, and came to...

Butts to Field: Less Treatment, More Development

Jeff Butts is well-known on the research end of things in juvenile justice, choosing simply to analyze and conclude. But his recent...

Secure Detention Defined

Last week, JJ Today looked at data about status offenders sent to residential facilities by judges. We discovered that securely detaining a...

FACJJ Starts 2009 Report

Members of the Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice (FACJJ) were pretty tight-lipped about this month’s meeting in Chicago, at which its...

Status Offenders Detained: By the Numbers

The JJPDA Reauthorization bill that just made it through the Senate Judiciary Committee originally clamped down hard on the use of the...

Weed and Seed Money Available

Nonprofits and government agencies in high-crime areas should look into Weed and Seed competitive grants, which are administered by the Community Capacity...