All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Date set in LWOP case; Texas job loses one candidate, gains another; and more

  Happy holidays and Happy New Year to all our readers. Here is hoping that wherever they are, and whatever they did, juvenile...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Federal Youth Budget 2012

    Agency/Program 2009 Enacted 2012 Enacted Agriculture     Child Nutrition Programs $15 b $18.2 b Women, Infants & Children Program $6.9...

• The Closing of the Massachusetts Reform Schools and the Legacy of Jerome Miller

  On January 15, 1972, a caravan of 100 cars drove onto the grounds of the Lyman Reform School in Westborough, Massachusetts and...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Learning from Massachusetts’ Juvenile Justice Experiment

  In 1971, Massachusetts juvenile justice boss Jerry Miller and his lead staffer, Tom Jeffers, sat down in a Boston pub and decided...

• Research

  Weekly Notes: Illinois juvenile justice commission sells report well; Walsh Act update; and more

  ***As we write, Congress is playing a lively game of partisan chicken over a deal to fund the government for fiscal 2012...

• News

  Illinois Probe Finds Rushed, Unmeasured Process for Juvenile Release, Reentry and Parole

  Illinois has seen significant changes to the front-end of its juvenile justice system, but its system of releasing and assisting incarcerated juveniles...

• 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...

• News

  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...

• News

  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...

• News

  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...