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Boot Camp Death Costs $5 Million

The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of a boy...

No Smoking for Texas Foster Parents

Texas has joined states such as Vermont and Washington in prohibiting foster parents from smoking in their homes if they have foster...

NASCC Trims Its Name to the Corps

The National Association of Service and Conservation Corps (NASCC) has launched a rebranding effort that includes a new name, logo and motto....

RWJF Expands Drug Abuse Project

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) last month announced an expansion of its Reclaiming Futures initiative, which helps teens in the juvenile...

New Group for Professionals

A group of consultants has started what it calls the “first and only trade association for mentoring professionals.” The mission of the...

$5 Million to Train Future Workers

American Humanics has received a $5 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to fund a new competitive internship program, called the...

Massive Sex Offender Database Created

The National Center on Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) received an unexpected windfall last month when MySpace gave the group access to...

News Briefs for May 2004

Youth Suicides Often Exceed Murders In most states, youth are more likely to die from suicide than murder, according to a new...

News Briefs for April 2004

GAO Cites AmeriCorps Enrollment Errors A report released last month revealing flaws in the management of AmeriCorps provoked harsh criticism from Republican...

News Briefs for March 2004

CEO Pay Rises As Staffs Shrink Despite the financial woes of the recession, a new report says that while staff sizes at...

News Briefs for February 2004

Guardians Must Visit Kids In what may be the first requirement of its kind in the nation, the Michigan Supreme Court has...

News Briefs for December 2003 – January 2004

A Leary View Of Youth Voting As another presidential election year opens, what this country needs is … another campaign to get...

News Briefs for November 2003

Attracting Teens Un-Uniformly Every youth worker knows how difficult it is to lure teenagers into programs. Try to make them wear uniforms,...

News Briefs for October 2003

Kids and Adults: The Culture Gap Amazed by what today’s kids don’t seem to know or by what they take for granted?...

News Briefs for September 2003

World Tobacco Law Advances Proponents of an international treaty on tobacco control, which focuses on preventing youth smoking, are pushing for ratification...

News Briefs for July 2003

Foundations Fight Law To Give More Some of the nation’s largest foundations are trying to change a provision in a federal charity...

News Briefs for June 2003

Foster Care Workers Charged in Kids’ Deaths A county prosecutor in Michigan is making political points and shaking up the child protection...

News Briefs for May 2003

Suit Says Fraud Killed Missing Kids’ Center A year after a Florida missing children’s organization filed for bankruptcy after 20 years of...

News Briefs for April 2003

States Flunk First Child Welfare TestA new test of state child welfare systems is exposing weaknesses, but critics say the biggest weakness...

News Briefs for March 2003

Child Support Goes Plastic In another sign of how technology is changing youth services, parents collecting court-ordered child support in Colorado can...