All posts tagged "Advocacy"

The Streets Bring Dire Lessons for the Young Homeless

Prostitution didn’t come easily to Brenda Myers-Powell. At 15, she put herself out  on the streets of Chicago, and for a while, they weren’t taking to...

Lessons Nonprofits can Learn from Demise of Noted Agency

During the course of its 35 years, Public/Private Ventures — a well-regarded nonprofit that combined practice and research to learn the best...

VIDEO: Exclusive Talk with Youth Service Expert

The annual National Partnership for Juvenile Services (NPJS) symposium from October 14 to 18 brought together juvenile service professionals from across the nation for...

VIDEO: Exclusive Talk with Youth Service Expert

Obama Addresses Child Poverty Questions; Romney Declines

President Barack Obama sent a two-page letter over the weekend to six child advocacy organizations to explain his plan to combat poverty...

Boy Scout Files Show Patterns of Sexual Abuse

How organizational practices enabled molesters, until victims forced changes One morning in 1969, a boy nearly ignited a sex abuse scandal in...

Documentary Follows Brooklyn’s Championship Middle School Chess Team

The trials and triumphs of the chess team at New York City’s Intermediate School 318 in Brooklyn — dubbed “the most successful...

Juvenile Justice Advocates Fear Millions Cut by Sequestration

Unless the U.S. Congress agrees on a different budget by the end of this year, stopping a so-called “sequestration” budget, federal spending...

Tonight’s Debate to Bring National Attention to Childhood Poverty, Advocacy Groups Turn to Twitter

With millions of people expected to tune into tonight’s presidential debate – the election season’s much anticipated first meeting between President Barack...

Plugging in Disconnected Youth

Months after a White House study committee published a list of recommendations, a big tent of advocates and scholars are starting to...

Grants Awarded: July – September 2012

    Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation http://www.gatesfoundation.org/ (206) 709-3100 Seattle, WA Athabasca University, to provide conference support to Massive Open Online...

Social Network Provides Support for Foster Kids Aging Out of the System

Foster children have a new support system to turn to when they turn 18 (21 in some states) and age out of...

Voices of Suicide Survivors: Webinar Explores Prevention Techniques

Coinciding with National Suicide Prevention Week, the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare (NCCBH) held a Webinar on Wednesday titled Suicide Primer: Signs,...

Repairing the Damage of Conflicts with Community Conferences

There is that moment after a conflict, maybe it’s an argument or some harsh words, when we want to reconnect with the...

Families Unlocking Futures: Solutions to the Crisis in Juvenile Justice

In 2001, my 13-year-old son, Corey, was sent to what the New York Times called “the worst juvenile prison in the country.”...

YouthBuild Programs Receive $75M in Federal Grants

Nearly 5,000 at-risk young people across 28 states and the District of Columbia are expected to complete their high school education while...

What About the Girls?

Juvenile crime has been declining for years and is now at historic lows. That’s the good news. The bad news is that girls are...

Restorative Circles and the Heart of Justice

My first “live” Restorative Circle happened a few days ago, in Rochester, New York. The circle started with seven people, and it...

Teens Get ‘JOLT’ to Succeed at San Diego’s ‘Second Chance’

SAN DIEGO – Armando Aguilar, now a lanky 20-year-old from Oceanside, Calif., needed a job, a break from the gang and drug...

Bart Lubow on the Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative (JDAI)

Bart Lubow, who has been working for more than 20 years to reduce the number of youth being sent to detention centers,...