2015: Year in Review | Page 485 of 667

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Guiding Youth Nonprofits Through the Recession

The Finance Project is out with another strategy brief on financing and sustaining youth programs – this time on preserving program quality...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Weekly Notes: Funding announcements from Justice; Arizona’s plan to shut down state JJ; Dwayne Betts, Image Award winner; and more

Funding A couple of juvenile-relevant announcements from the Justice Department: Research on Sentencing and Community-Based Alternatives to Incarceration: Grants from the National...

A Way to Reach Out-of-School Youth

Washington, D.C. — While the path toward post-secondary education and gainful employment is a long, hard journey for youths who’ve dropped out...

News

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...

News

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...

News

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...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

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...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

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...

News

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...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Dropout Prevention Group Calls it Quits

Larry Brown guided WAVE to new heights. Faced with increasing financial strains and the sudden loss of its longtime leader, the...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

DOL Tips for Reaching Hard-to-Serve Youths

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration has released a new guidance for states, workforce investment boards and local...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

CNCS Unveils Guidelines for Social Innovation Grants

Long-awaited funding guidelines for the new $50 million Social Innovation Fund were announced last month by the Corporation for National and...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Radio Personality Launches Mentoring Drive

Big Brothers Big Sisters is joining forces with popular radio personality Michael Baisden to amp up its mentor outreach efforts. (Look...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

First Lady Begins Anti-Obesity Campaign

First lady Michelle Obama kicked off her child obesity awareness tour with a schedule of appearances and speeches active enough to...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

100th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America

100th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America By Diana Elbasha Founded: 1910 By: William D. Boyce, an American newspaperman and entrepreneur....

News

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...

News

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...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

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...

News

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...

► Newsmakers