Child Welfare Nebraska turned to out-sourcing many of the functions of the state child welfare agency to gain stability, cut costs and...
***Day 909 of the Obama administration and still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...
Urban Institute This new evaluation by researchers from the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center (UI-JPC), RTI International (RTI) and the Center for...
A report on school discipline released this week by the Council of State Governments Justice Center and Public Policy Research Institute could...
The U.S. Justice and Education departments are making disruption of the “school to prison” pipeline – which can begin with minor school...
***Day 900 of the Obama administration and still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...
“Beyond Scared Straight,” a popular and controversial cable television reality show that was criticized by Department of Justice officials for depicting a...
A spending bill that eliminates most federal funding for juvenile justice activities was approved today by the House Appropriations Committee, and is...
The committee that holds the purse strings for federal juvenile justice programs is set to mark up the juvenile justice budget, which...
“Beyond Scared Straight,” a popular and controversial cable television reality show that was criticized by Department of Justice officials for depicting a...
The House subcommittee that oversees Justice Department funding produced an appropriations bill this week that would slash activities authorized by the Juvenile...
***Day 893 of the Obama administration and still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...
A new study suggests that a program run by the National Guard can help dropouts who are ready to reconnect and move...
Some youth programs in Minnesota are being threatened by a shutdown of the state government brought on by an impasse over the...
Happy Independence Day. Be safe on the roads and around the grill! ***Day 886 of the President Barack Obama administration and still...
2011 Champions of Health Professions Diversity Award For: Commitment to increasing California’s health care workforce and its diversity. By: The California Wellness...
Nonprofits Roxanne Spillett, who has led the Atlanta-based Boys & Girls Clubs of America since 1996, announced she will step down as...
The U.S. Supreme Court, deciding cases about questioning youths, sidestepped the constitutional questions surrounding interviewing children in their schools about alleged child...
Note: This story was corrected on June 30. The initial story mistakenly reported that Kirk Gunderson had a heroin addiction; he in...
The decision to raise the age of jurisdiction for juvenile courts comes with doubts attached for some of the youths affected. Many...