Web Extras Book: Scout’s Honor: Sexual Abuse in America’s Most Trusted Institution A look inside a Confidential File Data on molesters in...
Normally, the Boy Scouts of America wins headlines like this: “Autistic Scout Saves Teacher” (CNN, last October). But today, the headlines are...
President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is paying off for several charities that work with youths and young adults. The White House yesterday...
It looks like New Jersey will soon get a new director for its Department of Children and Families, but state lawmakers are...
A report released today about efforts to overhaul Michigan’s child welfare system shows how the recession gets in the way of reform....
There’s new evidence that a more flexible system for spending federal child welfare money helps to reduce abuse and keep kids out...
Los Angeles County officials recently unveiled a new Web-based system for sharing information about suspected child abuse among police, child protection services...
The Archdiocese of Washington recently ended its 80-year-old foster care and adoption services in that city because of a new same-sex marriage...
The U.S. Department of Education today released its “final priorities” and the grant application for the $650 million Investing in Innovation Fund....
Foster care group homes in California are about to get a 30 percent increase in reimbursements from the state, thanks in part...
Few groups of people are more difficult to count than abused kids, given that both the perpetrators and the victims try to...
Bill Treanor Sara Fritz Prize-winning investigative journalist Sara Fritz will become publisher of Youth Today in April, succeeding co-founder and Publisher...
Shmavonian: New president says P/PV projects will focus on “improving the lives of our most disadvantaged youth.” The research and practice...
Correction: The article below incorrectly stated that in 2005, Chicago police accidentally killed a 14-year-old in a residential treatment center with a stun...
King: “I’ve done more harm than good.” San Francisco—A round-faced man whose attire suggested modest means stood in the sun-splashed lobby outside...
“I was very familiar with controversy. I thought that would be an advantage. It wasn’t.” John Rector, former OJJDP administrator “I was...
Indio, Calif.—The federally funded Youth Opportunity Center (YOC) in this desert town is run by a muscular ex-ballplayer everyone calls Rock. He’s...
Urban Institute The first challenge for the 100-plus people who flowed into Urban Institute’s Washington offices last week to talk about...
When the Alliance for Justice was formed in 1979, Ronald Reagan was on his way to becoming president and ushering in nearly...
Chapin Hall and National Governors Association This Web conference examines the possible impact of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions...