Youth Today
News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
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Provider of Background Checks Sold
The leading company in conducting background checks on employees and volunteers for nonprofits was sold last month for $4 billion. Youth-serving organizations...
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Youth Programs Recovering From Ike
Hurricane Ike left youth service organizations across parts of the South scrambling to reopen storm-damaged facilities last month and to re-establish contacts...
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Network Closes
The Western States Youth Services Network (WSYSN), which comprises 76 member organizations, is shutting down due to financial difficulties. “We simply do...
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League Founder Gunned Down at Trophy Ceremony
The founder of a community basketball league in Philadelphia was shot and killed on Sept. 11, along with one of his players,...
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4-H to Study Wind Energy
The National 4-H Council, which has made concerted efforts to create more science and engineering programs in the 4-H infrastructure, landed...
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Research for Youth Projects
The William T. Grant Foundation has awarded grants to four research teams for youth-related projects. The teams selected, listed by the head...
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After-School Training Funded
The Atlantic Philanthropies has announced that it will provide $2.3 million to Foundations Inc. for its Center for Afterschool Education. The Moorestown,...
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10-Year Sentence for Adoption Fraud
By Grace Lavigne A woman who used fake identities to adopt 11 disabled children – whom authorities say she kept locked in...
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Michigan Settles Foster Care Lawsuit
Michigan has agreed to implement major reforms in its foster care system under a settlement reached in a class-action lawsuit. The...
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How Not to Run Youth Employment
When it comes to expanding a youth employment program, you can have too much of a good thing. That’s what happened in...
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Youth Today Launches JJ Today
You can now get the latest juvenile justice news and grant announcements delivered to your inbox, or view them online anytime....
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Michigan Let Criminals Provide Day Care
Hundreds of convicts – including sexual predators, child abusers and even a murderer – were allowed to work as child day...
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Children of Prisoners Vouchers Fall Short
A voucher program designed to expand the availability of mentors for children whose parents are incarcerated is bogged down by in-fighting...
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Teams Selected to Improve Assessments
By Grace Lavigne The American Humane Association and Casey Family Programs have chosen 21 teams from public and tribal child welfare...
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Scam Targets Child Support Money
The FBI is warning parents who use EPPICards to receive child support payments to guard against giving their personal information to scammers...
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Elian Gonzalez Moves On
Elian Gonzalez, the boy who became the center of an international political battle when he was forcibly taken from relatives in Florida...
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Parolees in California Win New Rights
In a move hailed by youth advocates as the most important change in the nation’s largest juvenile justice system in three decades,...
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Poetic Justice for Vermont Vandals
Frost: Get “out, out” of his house. Photo: U.S. Library of Congres Youths who think reading poetry is a form of punishment...
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Ohio Commits to Change
A court-mandated reform plan for Ohio should mean more use of small, community-based programs for youth and the hiring of more staff...
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Staffers Dismissed for Blistering Punishment
By Grace Lavigne So you think your staff orientation covers everything? Two counselors at a city-run day camp in Coppell, Texas, were...
