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Matched Comparison of Children in Kinship Care and Foster Care on Child Welfare Outcomes

Colorado State University This study compared permanency, safety and stability outcomes for 318 "matched" pairs of children placed in either kinship care...

Weekly Notes: Famous Advocate Canned in San Fran; First Names Predicting Lives of Crime?; New Leader at JPI; and More

After weeks of speculation that it would happen, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (D) fired nationally known youth advocate Margaret Brodkin this...

Opinion

Three Candidates for OJJDP

[Note: This piece also appears in the Obama Job Watch in Youth Today‘s Latest News section] The scuttlebutt points to two widely-known...

Bob Shepherd’s Archive Shows a Different Era of Federal Leadership

When you write, testify and speak as much as Bob Shepherd did, you tend to collect a lot of stuff; papers, reports,...

News

Chairs Named for House Education and Labor Subcommittees

Democrats have been named as chairs of the five subcommittees of the House Education and Labor Committee. The committee deals with a...

News

Kevin Ryan Named First Lay President of Covenant House

Kevin Ryan has been named the first lay president of Covenant House (CH), the largest homeless youth services organization in North and...

Weekly Notes-Jan. 16

JJ Today will be back Wednesday after the inaugural madness in Washington. ***As mentioned in our breaking news section yesterday, Jeff Slowikowski...

News

Join Together and CASA Announce Merger

Join Together, a major distributor of news on substance abuse and tobacco use by youth, announced yesterday that it would merge with...

News

The Economic Stimulus Bill: What’s in It for Youth

The $825 billion economic stimulus package unveiled by Congress this week would give a major boost to youth employment initiatives. But for...

What About Bob?

In a farewell message on OJJDP’s website, Flores ticked off a list of achievements made during his 6 ½-year tenure in the...

News

Slowikowski to Be Acting Administrator at OJJDP

Jeff Slowikowski, the associate administrator of the demonstration programs division, will become the acting administrator for the Office of Juvenile Justice and...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

The Future is Green for Community Colleges

If you’re searching for a place to get training for a job in America’s burgeoning “green economy,” then consider a community college...

News

Tobacco-Free Kids Head William Corr to HHS

[Note: This story has been corrected from an earlier version] William Corr, executive director of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids since 2000,...

Weekly Notes-Jan. 9

It’s been a slow week for JJ Today; we’re busy at work on a must-read story you will find in an upcoming...

News

Drum Line from Residential Facility to March in Inaugural Parade

To view a video of the drum corps in action go to www.bonnie-brae.org/news_knightsvid.asp When the Inaugural Parade for Barack Obama winds its...

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Unclaimed Children Revisited: The Status of Children’s Mental Health Policy in the United States

National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) This report examines whether the "explosion of knowledge" that occurred over the past quarter century...

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State of America’s Children 2008

Children's Defense Fund (CDF) This annual, comprehensive statistical review of key child data shows "epidemic numbers of children at risk" according to...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Inaugural Celebrations of Interest to Youth Workers

Inaugural revelers who do not find their way to the parade route or get into the official balls will not lack for...

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Using Family Group Conferencing to Assist Immigrant Children and Families in the Child Welfare System

American Humane Association This paper considers key factors in using Family Group Conferenceing with citizen children whose families traverse American borders and/or...