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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Young Offender Grants from DOL: Act Now!

Gotta love it when a federal agency announces grant availability with a deadline that is only a month later. The Department of...

Finding Resources to Support Mentoring Programs and Services for Youth

The Finance Project 32 pages. Free. This brief explores three strategies for financing and sustaining mentoring programs and services: building partnerships with businesses...

Weekly Notes-Nov. 14

JJ Today will start using Friday to update readers on media coverage and other interesting juvenile justice news from the week. Here...

Q&A: Texas Youth Commissioner Cherie Townsend

It’s been a long two years for the Texas Youth Commission. Pick a bad thing that happens in JJ and it has...

JJ Under Obama: The Dialogue Begins

“You just witnessed a whole lot of pent-up energy.” That was how former OJJDP Administrator Shay Bilchik began his short address Thursday...

How to Keep Juveniles In the Education Mix

Not going to lie: Before this week, JJ Today had not heard of the National Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center for the...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Atlantic Philanthropies Hires New Children and Youth Director

The Atlantic Philanthropies, an international grant maker with assets of $3.3 billion, has hired Donna Lawrence to oversee its disadvantaged children and...

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Tale of Two Reforms: MacArthur’s ambitious plan spurs changes and criticism

Some of the most tangible results of Pennsylvania’s Models for Change Initiative (MFC) could fit in your briefcase. It’s just two documents....

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Tale of Two Reforms: Annie E. Casey’s JDAI aims to reduce detention. Could it spread nationwide?

The daily juvenile detention population in Santa Clara County, Calif., has fallen 53 percent since 2001. Over the same time, the daily...

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College is for Poor Kids

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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

President Signs Bills for Youth Programs

President Bush has signed all three major pieces of youth-related legislation that recently passed in Congress: the Protect Our Children Act, the...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Gay Ban Overturned

A Florida circuit court judge has ruled that the state’s 31-year ban on adoption by gays is unconstitutional. Monroe Circuit Court Judge...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

State Tries to Stop Flow of Abandoned Kids

Stunned at their state suddenly becoming the nation’s doorstep for unwanted children, Nebraska officials announced last month that they plan to change...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Community Colleges Get $2.5 Million to Help Communities

After-school snack? No, the children don’t usually sample the pickle juice at the Eureka Kids after-school program in Eureka Springs, Ark. But...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Scrap Metal Black Market Blacks Out Youth Groups

The economy is down, scrap metal prices are up, and some recreation programs are in the dark – because thieves have taken...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Thieves Exploit Access To Agency Funds

Two youth workers have been linked to separate thefts of $450,000 and $120,000: the first from a youth shelter in California...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Staffers Convicted in Youth’s Death

Three former employees of a residential treatment program in Louisiana have been convicted of negligent homicide and cruelty to a juvenile, after...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Corrections to October 2008 Articles

Our October issue set a new record for errors. We plan to make it stand forever. The article, “Groups Strive to...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

On the Move – November 2008

American Legacy Foundation Cheryl Healton, CEO Moves to: 1724 Massachusetts Ave. NW Washington, DC 20036 (202) 454-5555 Christy Pichel, president Moves...

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