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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

OJJDP Demonstration Grant RFP: Don’t Bother?

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention issued its solicitation for field-initiated demonstration programs, a piece of paper that at first...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Funds Available at SAMHSA, OJJDP; Young Teens Sentenced to Die in Prison; New Boss at ETA; and more

A few federal funding notices and some interesting stories on the state level this week: ***The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...

JJ Today on Twitter

Readers can now follow JJ Today on Twitter, where we will immediately send out a quick update every time a new piece...

Two More names for OJJDP Administrator

Corrected April 22 JJ Today has heard two more names thrown around for the top job at the Office of Juvenile Justice...

Weekly Notes: Great Piece by JPI; Tribal Program Money Available; Luzerne Developments; and more

***It isn’t completely focused on juvenile offenders, but the piece on crime and Baltimore put out by the Justice Policy Institute this...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Camp Worker in the Line of Fire – Literally

The fire destroyed two cabins and charred half of the wooded property at Nebraska Youth Camp, in Kearney. A youth worker at...

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Bearing Witness

This piece blends personal accounts with data and recommendations, which combined produce a piece that serves both as an indictment, and a...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Help Decide Who Gets Stimulus Grants

Several federal agencies are looking for peer and grant reviewers to help with the increased volume of solicitations for the stimulus funds....

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Stimulus Funds Could Help Prevent Foster Placements

Although the funds are not described as “family preservation” money, child welfare workers and agencies can tap into more than $1.5 billion...

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Youth Video Draws Obama to ‘Early College’ School

Visual appeal: Youths at the Village Academy speak in this YouTube video about how the economic crisis is hurting their families. In...

Two Good After-School Advocacy Jobs Open Up

Erika Argersinger of the AfterSchool Alliance is moving out of the nation’s capital, so her policy director position is open at the...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Conference Call on Summer Learning Funds Friday (Must RSVP Today!)

Johns Hopkins University’s National Center for Summer Learning will host a conference call Friday at 1 p.m. about how to access funds...

The Luzerne Scandal: More Questions for the Juvenile Justice Field

There’s so much to say about the judges’ scandal in Luzerne, Pa. Our front-page story in April focused on the most telling...

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Advances in Juvenile Justice Reform, 2007-2008

National Juvenile Justice Network The United States imprisons more youths than any country in the world. This report highlights state-level juvenile justice...

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Preventing Adolescent Dating Violence

The Prevention Researcher The February issue features four articles on violence in teen dating. This quarterly journal tackles the issue first by...

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Homeland Insecurity

Every Child Matters Education Fund This new report shows that the United States lags behind many of the world's comparably wealthy democracies...

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Zero Tolerance Breeds Zero Justice

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A poem on the wall of PA Child Care, a privately owned juvenile detention facility on the outskirts of...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Newark Plans First Program for LGBT Youth

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth in Newark, N.J., have never had a place to go for counseling, mentoring and stress-free...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

More Caseworkers, More Pay, More Turnover

While the most common prescriptions for fixing overburdened child welfare systems are to decrease staff caseloads and increase salaries, here’s a new...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier