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OBAMA JOB WATCH: Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships (Updated May 11)

Update, May 11: David Myers will head the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives at the Department of Homeland Security. For the...

OBAMA JOB WATCH: Department of Agriculture (Updated June 30)

June 30 President Obama in April nominated Kevin Concannon to serve as undersecretary of agriculture for food, nutrition and consumer services. Concannon...

Author Says OJJDP Buried Suicide Report

The author of a recent U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention report on suicides in juvenile facilities says that, despite...

Foster Care Abuse Ruling Goes Against State Workers

Foster care workers can be held liable if the children they place in foster homes are sexually abused by other children in...

New Funder Set to Pump $10 Million into Yet-to-be-Chosen
Boston Neighborhood

Boston Rising, a new funding entity incubated by the Eos Foundation, has announced a five-year, $10 million “Impact Zone” grant designed to...

Staffer Assault on Youth Prompts Shutdown of Facility

The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) is preparing to revoke the license of Visions for Youth, the Springfield-based foster care...

Obama Signs Children’s Health Bill Vetoed by Bush

President Obama signed into law this afternoon a bill that is projected to extend health insurance to 4.1 uninsured children by 2013. ...

What’s Your CEO Worth?

“I’m guessing you don’t have too Robert Barnett $84,000 Donna Rice Hughes $91,173 many people wanting to Billy Stanfield $98,000 talk about...

Can Technology Ease Pain of Budget Cuts?

  Indianapolis Judge Marilyn Moores spoke at a juvenile justice conference in Dallas in 2007 about how her jurisdiction solved a massive...

Steering Dollars Toward Action

  Robert F. Sherman, who used his position at the Surdna Foundation to help youth rock the boat for their own causes,...

Regional Networks Get Disconnected

Correction to this article: The location of a satellite office for the Southeastern Network of Youth & Family Services was incorrect. The office...

Newsmakers for February 2009

Nonprofits Kevin Ryan has been named the first lay president of Covenant House (CH), the largest homeless youth services organization in North...

New Education Chief Raises Hopes

  Chicago Public Schools students have made slow but steady progress in several key areas during the eight-year leadership of CEO Arne...

Small Price to Keep a Kid in College

  As a single mother of a small child with fragile health, and with no educational credentials except a GED, Denise Lee...

Madoff Scandal Claims Youth Work Victims

  Youth work lost two major benefactors to the alleged Ponzi scheme created by financial manager Bernard Madoff. The New York-based JEHT...

The Bush Youth Legacy

On these pages is a sampling of changes in youth well-being and youth-related federal spending during the Bush administration. Both supporters and...

Online Sports Registration Vendor Striking Out

Brooke Briggance discovered in October that Count Me In Corp., a Washington state online vendor that handled sports and activity registrations for...

Patient Teenagers? A Comparison of the Sexual Behavior of Virginity Pledgers and Matched Non-Pledgers

Matched Comparison of Children in Kinship Care and Foster Care on Child Welfare Outcomes

Colorado State University This study compared permanency, safety and stability outcomes for 318 "matched" pairs of children placed in either kinship care...

Chairs Named for House Education and Labor Subcommittees

Democrats have been named as chairs of the five subcommittees of the House Education and Labor Committee. The committee deals with a...