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JJDPA Reauthorization Introduced

A Senate bill introduced in late June offers no promises, but could dramatically increase funding for juvenile justice and allow more of...

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OJJDP Chief Flores Testifies Before Waxman’s Panel

As part of Youth Today‘s ongoing coverage of grant-making abnormalities at the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), associate editor...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

In Defense of Flores

J. Robert Flores calmly sat before a congressional committee yesterday and steadfastly defended himself against accusations from his own staff that he...

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The Case Against Flores

The head of the nation’s juvenile justice office and his chief of staff helped favored organizations win competitive grants, pressured staffers to...

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Justice Department Investigates Travel by Flores

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether the administrator of its juvenile justice office used government funds to take trips that were...

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Is Reading Fundamental After School?

San Jose, Calif. – Can after-school programs help children read better? Time for progress: Youth workers and youths spend 90 minutes a...

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At Justice, 84th Place Wins

When it comes time to decide who gets millions of dollars in grants, the head of the federal juvenile justice agency doesn’t...

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Judges’ Group Fights ‘Firestorm’

Mentaberry: “We disagreed with the government.” When staffers at the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges filled out timesheets to...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Alabama Breaks Free

Alabama’s child welfare system is finally free from oversight after a lawsuit that began 20 years ago. But James Tucker is still...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Advocates Angry Over Policy to Take Newborns

Some child welfare watchdogs are aghast over a new policy that says New York City should remove newborns from parents if those...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Bill Would Boost Staff Training

The often-beleaguered child welfare work force would get a boost under legislation introduced in late April by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.)....

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Summer Jobs ‘Crisis’ for Youth

Adults aren’t the only ones feeling the pinch of a U.S. economy hitting the skids. More than 65 percent of American youth...

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Will United Way Shift Affect Youth Groups?

Some youth-serving organizations might benefit, while others might lose, under the United Way of America’s decision to focus its spending on three...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Parents Spared in Immigration Raids

A federal raid on a kosher meat plant last month resulted in hundreds of arrests of allegedly illegal immigrants, but in contrast...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Fighting Abuse at Youth Rehab Facilities

A House committee approved legislation last month that would step up oversight to better protect youth residing in private rehabilitation facilities, despite...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

New Law Requires Certification

In what is being billed as a first for any state, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) has signed a law requiring state...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Another Shelter Hits Skid Row

Here’s another gloomy sign of the times for runaway and homeless shelters: After 38 years, Baltimore’s only shelter exclusively for youth closed...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

On the Move for June 2008

Healthy Teen Network Pat Paluzzi, CEOMoves to:1501 St. Paul St., Suite 124Baltimore, MD 21202(410) 685-0410www.healthyteennetwork.org Making Cents InternationalFiona Macaulay, presidentMoves to:1155 30th...

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