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OBAMA JOB WATCH: Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships (Updated May 11)

Update, May 11: David Myers will head the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives at the Department of Homeland Security. For the...

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OBAMA JOB WATCH: Department of Agriculture (Updated June 30)

June 30 President Obama in April nominated Kevin Concannon to serve as undersecretary of agriculture for food, nutrition and consumer services. Concannon...

OJJDP Suicide Study Shows New Higher Numbers; One-Third of Deaths Unknown to Relevant State Agency

A study of juveniles who committed suicide while in confinement – first contracted by the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...

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Author Says OJJDP Buried Suicide Report

The author of a recent U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention report on suicides in juvenile facilities says that, despite...

New Day in San Francisco, Providence

The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation’s New Day for Learning, which seeks to help communities improve existing plans to improve educational achievement through...

Weekly Notes: Conn. Age Change Might be Delayed; Developments on Pennsylvania JJ Scandal; Report on Status Offenders; and More

***Connecticut has become a darling, of sorts, for the juvenile justice community. It has signed on to MacArthur Foundation’s Models for Change...

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Foster Care Abuse Ruling Goes Against State Workers

Foster care workers can be held liable if the children they place in foster homes are sexually abused by other children in...

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New Funder Set to Pump $10 Million into Yet-to-be-Chosen
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Boston Rising, a new funding entity incubated by the Eos Foundation, has announced a five-year, $10 million “Impact Zone” grant designed to...

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Staffer Assault on Youth Prompts Shutdown of Facility

The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) is preparing to revoke the license of Visions for Youth, the Springfield-based foster care...

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Obama Signs Children’s Health Bill Vetoed by Bush

President Obama signed into law this afternoon a bill that is projected to extend health insurance to 4.1 uninsured children by 2013. ...

Reentry Getting Increased Attention

It’s not as though reentry is a new concept for the juvenile justice field. But reading the tea leaves, it appears to...

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What’s Your CEO Worth?

“I’m guessing you don’t have too Robert Barnett $84,000 Donna Rice Hughes $91,173 many people wanting to Billy Stanfield $98,000 talk about...

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Can Technology Ease Pain of Budget Cuts?

Indianapolis Judge Marilyn Moores spoke at a juvenile justice conference in Dallas in 2007 about how her jurisdiction solved a massive...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Students Get Special Access to Inaugural Events

Young people of diverse backgrounds from across the country received special access to President Barack Obama’s Inauguration and the numerous accompanying...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier