Youth Today
Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
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Weekly Notes: PREA grants available, Walsh Act legislation, and next week’s council meeting
***Hope everyone who cares enjoys the Super Bowl. True story: JJ Today grew up equidistant from the Giants and Patriots, but attached...
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The View from the Cliff
Bridgespan Group For nonprofits that rely primarily on philanthropic support, membership or user fees, says the Bridgespan report, overall economic recovery is...
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Weekly Notes: The MacArth-nership; training program on services for crossover youth
*** There are 368 days left in Obama’s first term, and there is still no nominee to serve as administrator of the...
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From the YT Archives: The Push for More L3Cs
President Barack Obama spent part of his hour-long State of the Union address Tuesday discussing a partnership between business and academia aimed...
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Melodee Hanes Named Acting Administrator of OJJDP
Melodee Hanes has replaced Jeff Slowikowski as acting administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, reaffirming what many already...
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National Hub Started for State Child Welfare Reform
A group of nonprofits will work with the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation to establish a national hub for state child welfare...
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The fundamental failure of “Fostering Connections”
The child welfare establishment couldn’t stop gushing over the Fostering Connections and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008. It was sold as the...
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Laurie Robinson Leaving the Obama Administration in February
Laurie Robinson, the assistant attorney general for the division of the Justice Department that oversees juvenile justice, announced in a message to...
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Weekly Notes: Date set in LWOP case; Texas job loses one candidate, gains another; and more
Happy holidays and Happy New Year to all our readers. Here is hoping that wherever they are, and whatever they did, juvenile...
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Federal Youth Budget 2012
Agency/Program 2009 Enacted 2012 Enacted Agriculture Child Nutrition Programs $15 b $18.2 b Women, Infants & Children Program $6.9...
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HHS Requires Some Head Start Programs to Compete for First Time
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will for the first time force underperforming Head Start grantees to compete for funding...
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Learning from Massachusetts’ Juvenile Justice Experiment
In 1971, Massachusetts juvenile justice boss Jerry Miller and his lead staffer, Tom Jeffers, sat down in a Boston pub and decided...
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Potential 2012 Appropriations Deal A Vague and Mixed Bag for Youth Programs
Note: This story was corrected to reflect an accurate figure for the Corporation for National and Community Service Head Start is poised...
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CWLA: Youth Today Didn’t Tell the Whole Story
Note: Youth Today received the following letter in response to an article last week about Child Welfare League of America. It was...
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Federal Budget Watch 2012
Congress has approved deep cuts in federal juvenile justice funding for 2012, but neither the House nor the Senate has voted on...
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Weekly Notes: Helpful tool to seek unlikely partners in philanthropy; psych meds in the news again; big upcoming events in D.C.; and more
Notes is back after a week hiatus. We were going to post on Black Friday, but somebody pepper sprayed us in the...
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Review of Organizing Schools to Improve Student Achievement
National Education Policy Center Broken up into three sections – Effects size, monetary benefits and costs – the report analyzes three education...
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House Subcommitee Discusses Soaring Cost of College
The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training for the House Committee on Education and the Workforce met today to discuss college...
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Deborah Jeffrey Nominated for Inspector General Job at CNCS
President Barack Obama nominated Deborah Jeffrey last week to serve as Inspector General for the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS),...
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Federal Folly
Justice Policy Institute JPI argues that the spending in the 2012 Justice Department appropriations will help fuel unnecessary incarceration brought on by...
