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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

YouthBuild Again Wins Funds to Work with Dropout Juvenile Offenders

Eight months after being stripped of a $10 million Department of Labor (DOL) grant it received to help dropouts and juvenile offenders...

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Senate Passes Bill That Strips Confirmation Requirement for Juvenile Justice, Child Welfare Jobs

The Senate passed by a 79-20 margin today the Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act of 2011, which would remove the Senate...

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Leader of Child Welfare Website Wins Online Journalist of the Year

The leader of an advocacy media organization dedicated to coverage of child welfare is the Los Angeles Press Club’s Online Journalist of...

Weekly Notes: OJJDP job headed for non-confirmation status; education rewrite and school-to-prison pipeline; and more

***Day 879 of the Obama administration and still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...

Weekly Notes: Reentry funding available; additional thoughts on Supreme Court Case; and more

***Day number 872 of the Obama administration and still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and...

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Supreme Court Gives Juveniles Protection in Police Interrogations

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today in a 5-4 decision that said a police officer must take a child’s age into consideration...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Weekly Notes: Wait continues for OJJDP nominee; new venture to help states assess programs; and more

***Day number 865 of the Obama administration with no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

AED Finds Single Buyer, U.S. Programs Expected to Continue

The Academy for Educational Development is close to being acquired by major North Carolina nonprofit Family Health International (FHI), and, if the...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Alliance for Children and Families to Help Some Members Emphasize Strategy

The Alliance for Children and Families, a major trade group, has received a four-year, $5,375,000 grant to help 19 of its 350...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Weekly Notes: Walsh Act update, new funds from OJJDP, and more

***Well, National Hamburger Day (May 28) came and went with no announcement on who might lead the Office of Juvenile Justice and...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Labor Dept. Elected to Strip $10 Million Grants from YouthBuild, Corps Network

The Department of Labor used its own discretion to vacate two $10 million grants to national youth organizations after a challenge to...

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House Passes Waiver Program for Child Welfare Systems

The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would extend the federal government’s waiver program for child welfare systems, which has...

Weekly Notes: New structure for OJJDP advisory committee; a dark juvenile justice chapter ends in Florida; and more

Hope everyone has a lovely Memorial Day weekend. JJ Today got a press release yesterday informing us that Saturday is also National...

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Six of 10 Texas High School Seniors Have Been Suspended, Expelled or Arrested

More Texas students have been suspended or expelled than have not, according to a forthcoming study of state trends on school discipline....

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Supreme Court Declines to Rule on Fourth Amendment Rights in Child Abuse Interviews

The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to rule on the constitutional questioned posed by Camreta v. Greene and Alford v. Greene, cases...

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Report: In D.C., Summer is Never the Peak of Juvenile Arrests

A report released today by the group D.C. Lawyers for Youth challenges the widely held belief that notable spikes in juvenile offenses...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Labor Department Stripped $10 Million from YouthBuild USA, Corps Network

A pair of $10 million grants to two national youth-serving organizations designed to help dropouts and young adult offenders gain marketable skills...

Weekly Notes: David Richart remembered, State Advisory Groups head to D.C., new juvenile justice fellowships, and more

***Yesterday, YouthToday.org published a piece from Spalding University (Ky.) social work professor Helen Deines about the life and career of her friend,...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier