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Health Law Gives Abstinence-only Programs New Life
The health care reform law that President Barack Obama signed into law March 23 to help Americans get access to health insurance...
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Boy Scouts Buffeted by New Sex Abuse Charges
Normally, the Boy Scouts of America wins headlines like this: “Autistic Scout Saves Teacher” (CNN, last October). But today, the headlines are...
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Youth Summer Jobs Program: Did it Work?
At a time when many youth-serving agencies await word on whether there will be any federal money set aside for another youth...
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Judges’ Council Support Elimination of Valid Court Order Exception
The board of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) voted over the weekend to support elimination of the...
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Youth Groups Get a Piece of President’s Prize
President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is paying off for several charities that work with youths and young adults. The White House yesterday...
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Feds Name New National Job Corps Director
Edna Primrose, a longtime youth worker and Job Corps administrator, has been named national director of Job Corps, according to a memo...
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Audit Says ResCare Billed Improperly for Job Corps
ResCare, Inc. – the second-largest Job Corps site operator in the nation – improperly billed the Job Corps program for nearly $117,000,...
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Child Welfare Reform Meets Recession; Recession Wins
A report released today about efforts to overhaul Michigan’s child welfare system shows how the recession gets in the way of reform....
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Flexible Funding Improves Child Welfare in Florida
There’s new evidence that a more flexible system for spending federal child welfare money helps to reduce abuse and keep kids out...
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$650M Available for Innovation in Education
The U.S. Department of Education today released its “final priorities” and the grant application for the $650 million Investing in Innovation Fund....
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One Way to Stop Disruptive Sports Parents: Ban Them
A Massachusetts YMCA took an extreme step last week in response to the problem of disruptive parents at sports events: It banned...
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Grad Nation Dropout Prevention Campaign Targets Class of 2018
If low-performing schools are theaters of war in the struggle against the dropout problem, then expect to see Grad Nation – the...
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States May Be Able to Shield Juveniles from Registries
States may be able to shield most juvenile sex offenders from inclusion on a public registry and still achieve compliance with the...
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Federal Court Orders State to Cover More Foster Care Costs
Foster care group homes in California are about to get a 30 percent increase in reimbursements from the state, thanks in part...
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Youth Opportunities Still Knock
Baltimore—When Ernest Dorsey spoke last month to 20 youths during their orientation at the Westside Youth Opportunity Community Center in a forlorn...
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Changing of the Juvenile Justice Guard
Ronald Angel, Ark. Leo Arnone, Conn. In 2007, eleven states hired new leaders to oversee their juvenile justice systems. That’s nothing...
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California’s Gambit Pays Off for Kinship Care
A threat by California to do an end-run around federal regulations that restricted funding for guardianship programs – even though the...
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Is Child Abuse Declining?
Few groups of people are more difficult to count than abused kids, given that both the perpetrators and the victims try to...
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Obama Budget Tries to Make Change
A proposed appropriation of $210 million for Promise Grants – the Obama administration’s program to replicate the successful Harlem Children’s Zone approach...
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Youth Today Founder Retires; New Publisher Named
Bill Treanor Sara Fritz Prize-winning investigative journalist Sara Fritz will become publisher of Youth Today in April, succeeding co-founder and Publisher...
