When it comes time to decide who gets millions of dollars in grants, the head of the federal juvenile justice agency doesn’t...
Mentaberry: “We disagreed with the government.” When staffers at the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges filled out timesheets to...
A former assistant attorney general says the head of the nation’s juvenile justice agency misled her into approving millions of dollars in...
The dropout problem is getting a lot of attention lately, and last month brought a new sign of its growing stature as...
Flores: Says agency followed proper procedures. The odds didn’t look good for the Best Friends Foundation when it applied for a competitive...
A congressional committee last month launched an investigation into whether the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) violated its...
One grant proposal was to improve evaluations of state juvenile justice programs. The two Justice Department reviewers loved it, each giving it...
New Orleans, La.—If you run a youth program in a poor community, you probably feel that you don’t have enough resources, that...
Christine James-Brown has made her first extremely painful decision since taking over the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) in April: cutting...
Charleston, W.Va.—Missy Miller happily serves as membership manager here at the Charleston Family YMCA, but she still plans a career in crime....
Alison and Brian: “His friends noticed changes in him,” but didn’t recognize the symptoms of mental illness. The sudden death of a...
“I am really pissed off!” That’s Althea McMillan, who runs an abstinence-only education program in Miami, virtually shouting back at a wave...
Two of the nation’s premier nonprofits in community service and volunteering – the Points of Light Foundation and the Hands On Network...
You start working with kids as a single 20-something, full of passion for making a difference. By your mid-30s, many of you...
You’d think an organization that was serving tens of thousands of kids and had become a household name wouldn’t feel “vulnerable.” But...
As head of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, Dan Macallair has repeatedly given city officials scientific data that juvenile curfews...
Youth work has never been a promising career path for people whose life goals include driving their Beemer to their beach house....
Even when Family Support America (FSA) was flush with $24 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, its leaders knew trouble lurked...
As mentoring’s popularity continues to soar, perhaps no one is getting more attention than children of prisoners. Programs for those youth have...
To parents and youth workers, a ground-breaking research article published in 1999 simply provided scientific backing for what they see all the...