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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

15 of 69 SIP Applicants Seek to Address Youth-Related ‘Challenges’

Fifteen of the 69 applicants vying for a share of $50 million in Social Innovation Program (SIP) matching funds – offered by...

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Jury Slams Scouts with $18.5 M for Sex Abuse

In what appears to be biggest judgment ever against an American youth-serving organization for sex abuse, an Oregon jury today hit the...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

House Gets Started on Juvenile Justice Reauthorization

Note: This story has been updated The House Committee on Education and Labor today held its first hearing on the reauthorization of...

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Service Organizations Mark Anniversary of Kennedy Act Signing

The one-year anniversary of the signing of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act brought officials of major service organization to Washington...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

2010 Soros Justice Fellows Include a Number of JJ Projects

The New York-based Open Society Institute announced its 2010 Soros Justice Fellows, all of whom will receive a stipend between $45,000 and...

Arkansas Judge Overturns Ban on Gay Adoptions

An Arkansas state judge last week overturned a voter referendum that banned unmarried couples from adopting. The law was widely seen as...

Reform Hits Snags in Nebraska

Anyone overhauling child welfare and juvenile justice systems might want to watch the bumpy implementation of reform in Nebraska. Two of the...

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Wagner to Resign as Head of National Network for Youth

The executive director of the National Network for Youth, which advocates for increased resources to aid homeless and runaway youth, will leave...

Washington Talks About … Homeless/Runaway Youth How Many? Where’s the Money?

Washington, D.C. – It happens every Sunday morning all across America: Parents awaken to find that their normally responsible teenager never came...

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CNCS Announces Planning Grants

The Corporation for National and Community Service has chosen 14 organizations to receive grants to help them plan programs they hope can...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

OJP Grants: The Basics

The Office of Justice Programs (OJP), which houses the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention among other offices that support youth...

Nev., Mass., Sued over Child Welfare Troubles

The National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the child welfare systems for state of Nevada and for...

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Justice Department Backs JJDPA Reauthorization

Note: This story was updated on April 19 The Justice Department has notified the Senate Judiciary Committee that it “strongly supports” the...

Youth-Serving Agencies Benefit from Lumina Grants

Portions of the $3.4 million in first-quarter grants announced this week by the Lumina Foundation for Education will trickle down to youth-serving...

A Number for College Funding: 529

If you work with college-aspiring youths from low-income families or youths who may be the first in their family to go to...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Heroin Gang Infiltrates Balimore Community Center

Gang members working as counselors allegedly used an anti-violence program at a Baltimore community center to extend their heroin distribution business to...

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Learning from Molesters: What the Scout Scandal Teaches Us

Should the Boy Scouts say sorry? Should the pope resign? Those are among the questions that people have been asking in recent...

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Jury Deems Boy Scouts Negligent in Handling Sex Abuse

In a case that could have significant implications for one of the country’s most venerated youth-serving organizations, a Portland, Ore., jury today...

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