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Corporation for National and Community Service

www.serve.gov Another search database for service work opportunities is available here – this one coming by order of President Barack Obama. The...

LEARNS

http://nationalserviceresources.org/learns/learns LEARNS, an online technical assistance feature of the Corporation for National and Community Service’s resource center, allows national service organizations to...

Society for Research in Child Development

www.srcd.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=330 After-school science learning gets more attention – this time involving programs for both boys and girls – in this new searchable...

Successful Rural Nonprofits

Nonprofits in rural areas might learn from successful youth-serving agencies whose practices are described in a new report by the Bridgespan Group,...

CNCS Announces Learn and Serve America Grants

  Thirty-six Learn and Serve America grants – totaling almost $20 million and designed to engage students in service-learning projects that enhance...

Career and Technical Education: States Have Broad Flexibility in Implementing Perkins IV

Weekly Notes: OJJDP Upcoming Events; Young Children in Adult Court; Luzerne Update; and more

***There are two future events for which the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is searching for participants. The Girls...

Some Big Cities See Crime Drop, Including Juvenile Homicides

The Washington Post ran a story last week about the mysterious case of the shrinking crime rate, a live-action drama going on...

Casey’s 2009 Kids Count Shows Improvement in Six of 10 Areas

  The 2009 Kids Count Data Book, the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual statistical analysis of children’s well-being released today, showed a...

Child Welfare: A Summer Review

With vacations and some summer projects in the works at Youth Today, it’s been awhile since we posted to the ChildWelfare Today...

Extending Foster Care to Age 21: Benefits, Costs and Opportunities for States

Chapin Hall and National Governors Association This Web conference examines the possible impact of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions...

CNCS Gets Bigger Budget Hike – for Now

Casey’s 2009 Kids Count Shows Improvement in Six of 10 Areas

  The 2009 Kids Count Data Book, the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual statistical analysis of children’s well-being released today, showed a...

Volunteering in America

  Corporation for National and Community Service     The number of young adults (16 to 24 years old) who volunteered in 2008 rose...

Fostering Connections Webinar Coming Up

Two national child welfare organizations are teaming up to host webinars on the many provisions of the Fostering Connections to Success and...

New Funds Fuel Education Reform “Race”

A new education initiative called Race to the Top, which will funnel $4.35 billion in Recovery Act money to states that agree...

Windfall

  If you run an effective college readiness program and were banking on crucial federal funding that failed to come through, do...

Weekly Notes: New OJJDP Candidate; Summer Reading; Juvenile Sex Offender Program Shows Promise; and more

***The scuttlebutt on candidates to lead the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has died down over the summer months, but...

House Passes Labor, Health and Education Appropriations Bill

  The House of Representatives passed the appropriations bill for Labor, Health and Education Programs today 264-153, leaving intact the $1.069 billion ...

Did Cops Taser Foster Kids?

    The Illinois Office of State Guardian is suing Jefferson County  (Mount Vernon) and law enforcement officers there, alleging that a...