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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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State of the Union Speech Touches on DREAM Act, Dropout Laws and Job Training
President Barack Obama delivered his third State of the Union speech last night, an hour-long oratory that focused mostly on success in...
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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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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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Evolution of a Mission-Driven Youth Development Agency: Making a Difference
The Carnegie Foundation of New York funded this overview of Good Shepherd’s six-decade rise from a small neighborhood program to an indispensable...
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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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Illinois Probe Finds Rushed, Unmeasured Process for Juvenile Release, Reentry and Parole
Illinois has seen significant changes to the front-end of its juvenile justice system, but its system of releasing and assisting incarcerated juveniles...
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Fate of Child Welfare League of America Rests with Pension Plan
The Child Welfare League of America has taken drastic steps to stay alive as competition and the economy have driven membership down...
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Keeping Foster Youths’ School Connection
Veronica Carrillo, a veteran employee of Child Protective Services in Sacramento County, Calif., still remembers the frantic afternoons child caseworkers once devoted...
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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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Q&A: H. Ted Rubin
The oldest kids who were in the system when H. Ted Rubin was a Colorado juvenile judge are now 57 years old....
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Have We Gotten It Wrong on School Reform
Center on Education Policy A letter from Jack Jennings, CEO of the Center on Education Policy, analyzes a recent book by Marc...
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Family-Provider Relationships: A Multidisciplinary Review of High Quality Practices and Associations with Family, Child and Provider Outcomes
Administration for Children and Families Positive relationships between service providers and the adults receiving services are connected with better outcomes for youth,...
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Analysis of State Bullying Laws and Policies
U.S. Department of Education The department examined the extent to which states legislatively required schools to address bullying and what model policies...
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Youth Risk Behavior Survey
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention This 2009 survey by the CDC looks at health-risk behaviors among young people in 9th through...
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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...
