All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"

• Weekly Notes: A lively luncheon; new Justice grants; help shape Wyoming’s new juvie center; and more

  ***A slew of juvenile justice experts were in the old capitol city this week for the MacArthur Foundation’s Models for Change conference...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Federal Budget Watch 2012

  Congress has approved deep cuts in federal juvenile justice funding for 2012, but neither the House nor the Senate has voted on...

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  Q&A: H. Ted Rubin

  The oldest kids who were in the system when H. Ted Rubin was a Colorado juvenile judge are now 57 years old....

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  Family-Provider Relationships: A Multidisciplinary Review of High Quality Practices and Associations with Family, Child and Provider Outcomes

  Administration for Children and Families Positive relationships between service providers and the adults receiving services are connected with better outcomes for youth,...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Helpful tool to seek unlikely partners in philanthropy; psych meds in the news again; big upcoming events in D.C.; and more

  Notes is back after a week hiatus. We were going to post on Black Friday, but somebody pepper sprayed us in the...

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  Karen Mathis Leaving Big Brothers Big Sisters of America

  Note: This story was updated on Dec. 1 with more up-to-date information on the organization’s finances. Big Brothers Big Sisters of America...

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  Family-Provider Relationships: A Multidisciplinary Review

  Administration for Children and Families Positive relationships between service providers and the adults receiving services are connected with better outcomes for youth,...

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  Federal Folly

  Justice Policy Institute JPI argues that the spending in the 2012 Justice Department appropriations will help fuel unnecessary incarceration brought on by...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Federal juvenile justice money lacks certainty, champions; documentary on kids in adult prison to air Sunday; and more

   “Beginning of the end?” –Joe Vignati, Georgia Juvenile Justice Specialist “We are finding out we don’t have too many friends” – Liz...

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  Education Under Arrest

  Justice Policy Institute The number of school resource officers in schools rose 38 percent between 1997 and 2007, according to the U.S....

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Congress Makes Further Cuts to Juvenile Justice Funding

  Note: This story was updated on Nov. 18 House and Senate appropriations leaders finalized a “minibus” spending package that further reduces the...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Tough choices loom for OJJDP on state; a look at “crossover youths”; and more

  Notes is back after a week hiatus to put some work in on the November print edition of Youth Today. Happy Veterans...

• How to Use Public Support for Juvenile Justice Reform

  Our recently completed poll of 1,000 American adults offers advocates of youth justice reform new optimism, but also a path forward in...

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  Dual Involvment in Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice Connects to Major Struggles in Adulthood

  Los Angeles youths who exit both foster care and juvenile justice earn less as young adults and cost the public more than...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Supreme Court Again Takes Up Juvenile Life Without Parole

  The U.S. Supreme Court will again consider cases that could further set limits on when life without parole sentences can be imposed...

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  State Budget Cuts: America’s Kids Pay the Price

  Every Child Matters Education Fund Though the title alludes to fiscal decisions at the state level, this advocacy piece begins by hammering...

• Fearmongering for COPS Funding

  Back when the first “stimulus” bill – the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or ARRA – came out in 2009, JPI and...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Justice food fights with grantees; budget looks like a done deal; new resources from OJJDP

  ***There are 450 days left in the presidential term of Barack Obama, and there is still no nominee to serve as administrator...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: 2012 spending could pass soon; Day 1,002; report on future for youth-serving nonprofits

  ***Day number 1,002 of the Obama administration and still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and...

• You Can’t Do That!

  [Note: This column has been reprinted with permission by the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange] “They can’t do that!” This quickly became my...