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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...

Life After Debt?

A growing number of low-income minority students who go to for-profit colleges are taking out and defaulting on private student loans, which...

JJ Recovery Act Awards, Thus Far

One would hope that the Obama administration’s top priority for juvenile justice is finding a new administrator for the Office of Juvenile...

Children’s Aid Society Announces New CEO

Children’s Aid Society (CAS), which provides a range of programs for 150,000 New York City youth each year, has hired Richard Buery...

Afterschool Workforce Development Strategies: From Recruitment to Career Pathways

  Children Now   After-school workforce development projects that focus their outreach efforts on specific demographics, like high school and college students,...

America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2009

Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics An annual federal inter-agency report shows a few small changes in the well-being of...

Trends in Child Health 1997-2006: Assessing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Diagnoses of ADHD/ADD and of Learning Disability

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Though it makes no effort to establish possible causes and some of its findings are...