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CNCS coverage at Youth Today.

Youth Today’s coverage of the goings-on at the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNSC) has garnered a significant level of interest...

Weekly Notes: Web Training on Mental Health Screening/Assessment; Walsh Act Deadline Extended; and more

*** If you don’t have plans from 3-4p.m. on June 30, the Council of State Governments Justice Center will be hosting a...

Nonprofits and government agencies have new opportunities to tap Recovery Act dollars.

Nonprofits and government agencies have new opportunities to tap Recovery Act dollars to boost their capacity to serve disadvantaged individuals under the...

Illinois Budget a Really Bad Harbinger for 2010

For all of the political chicanery associated with Illinois, its services to youth involved with the child welfare system are regarded by...

Illinois Budget a Really Bad Harbinger for 2010

For all of the political chicanery associated with Illinois, its services to youth involved with the child welfare system are regarded by...

Obama Launches Summer Service Campaign

  “United We Serve,” a summer-long campaign to expand the size and scope of volunteering, kicked off today with a video statement...

Gates Foundation Takes on College Drop Out Problem

  Six national policy and research organizations will share $6.5 million in grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part...

FDA Advisory Committee OKs Marketing Use of Three Psych Meds for Youth

An expert panel for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the marketing of three psychotropic medications for use by...

Diplomas and Dropouts: Which Colleges Actually Graduate Their Students (and Which Don’t)

By 2015, less than one in four college students who start their higher education studies this fall will have earned a degree....

Cycle of Failure, Tapeworm in the System

These are the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform’s first two pieces on the state of Michigan’s child welfare system as the...

Weekly Notes: Conn. JJ System Improves as Age-Change Nears; Curfew Laws Beget Curfew Laws; Luzerne Judges Scandal Update; and more

***Connecticut a model of juvenile justice? It was pretty surprising to see that theme in the headlines of state newspapers last week....

Catching Up with JDAI

It had been awhile since we got up to speed on the general goings-on of the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI), a...

Obama Fires CNCS Watchdog

Juvenile and Family Court Judges Conference Set for July

The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges is holding its annual conference in Chicago on July 12-15. The conference offers...

Juvenile and Family Court Judges Conference Set for July

The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges is holding its annual conference in Chicago on July 12-15. The conference offers...

Rochester Curfew Struck Down by NY High Court

New York’s highest court, by a 5-2 vote, has struck down a curfew ordinance in the city of Rochester ruling that it...

Turning It Around

The alliance report heralds the progress made on the front of the system. Referrals to juvenile court are down 30 percent over...

Weekly Notes: YouthBuild Evaluated; Maryland Re-Opens Bowling Brook; California LWOP law moves through Senate

***YouthBuild got back an evaluation of its youth offender grants late last month from Social Policy Research Associates (252 pages!). The main...

Mandatory Assistance: Program seeks to help students move off academic probation

  After partying and slacking off caused her grades to slip at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., Lauren Cocroft had a...

Making Every Day Count: Boys & Girls Clubs’ Role in Promoting Positive Outcomes for Teens

Public/Private Ventures This latest report on P/PV's multi-year study of Boys & Girls Clubs finds that the more frequently youths participate in...