All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Youth Today Breakdown of State Spending on Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice and Youth

  Last Updated: August 15 Since the U.S. economy went into a tailspin in 2008, states have faced tough choices on spending. Significant...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Day 946; facility closures, for better or worse; and more

  ***Day 946 of the Obama administration and still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...

• Weekly Notes: Mari Kay Bickett on the future of the Judges’ Council; Justice nixes two juvenile grants; Beyond Scared Straight 2.0; and more

  ***Day 939 of the Obama administration and still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...

• Judges’ Council Discusses Gay Youth, Checklists for Judges

  Former Florida juvenile and family court judge Irene Sullivan agreed to check out the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges...

• Juvenile Judges Find Benchcards Helpful in Reuniting Families

  Note: This is the second part of a recap of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges annual conference, written...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Bringing Juveniles Back to School

  As the old adage goes, and bears repeating once again: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The best...

• Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier

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  Child Welfare The top Miami administrator of Florida’s Department of Children and Families, who was reprimanded for the handling of the Barahona...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Agenda for Juvenile Woodstock; NYC’s plan for young minority men; Walsh Act update; and more

  ***Day 925 of the Obama administration and still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...

• The Case for a Minimum Age in Juvenile Justice

  There has been important and productive attention to increasing the maximum jurisdictional age for juvenile offenders to one’s 18th birthday. It is...

• Research

  Weekly Notes: Remembering Allen Breed; Louisiana Juvenile Justice and antipsychotics; where private facility closures are happening; and more

  ***Justice justice has lost another luminary. Allen Breed, former head of the California Youth Authority and head of the National Institute of...

• Overmedicating Young Inmates Called Chemical Restraint

  Youths incarcerated across Louisiana and the New Orleans metropolitan area are getting dosed with potent antipsychotic drugs even when they have not...

• News

  Seven States Comply with Federal Sex Offender Registry at Deadline

  Note: This article was initially posted on July 27 and updated on July 28 Seven more states have come into substantial compliance...

• Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Top Headlines 7/27

  Child Welfare As more children are placed in foster families, adopted or returned to their birth parents, the number of group foster...

• Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Top Headlines 7/26

  Child Welfare Gay teens in Massachusetts are more likely to be homeless than their heterosexual peers, according to new research from the...

• Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Top Headlines 7/25

  Child Welfare Nebraska turned to out-sourcing many of the functions of the state child welfare agency to gain stability, cut costs and...

• Weekly Notes: Justice leader says OJJDP not going anywhere; few recommendations come out of juvenile justice working groups; and more

  ***Day 909 of the Obama administration and still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...

• ► Reports

  The Multi-Site Adult Drug Court Evaluation

  Urban Institute This new evaluation by researchers from the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center (UI-JPC), RTI International (RTI) and the Center for...

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  Texas Study on Suspension and Expulsion: A Look at the Major Findings

  A report on school discipline released this week by the Council of State Governments Justice Center and Public Policy Research Institute could...

• News

  Obama Administration to Fight Harsh School Discipline

  The U.S. Justice and Education departments are making disruption of the “school to prison” pipeline – which can begin with minor school...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Walsh compliance more attractive with low approps?; new stats on incarcerated juveniles; and more

  ***Day 900 of the Obama administration and still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...