***There are two future events for which the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is searching for participants. The Girls...
The Washington Post ran a story last week about the mysterious case of the shrinking crime rate, a live-action drama going on...
***The scuttlebutt on candidates to lead the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has died down over the summer months, but...
One would hope that the Obama administration’s top priority for juvenile justice is finding a new administrator for the Office of Juvenile...
The Weekly Notes grew absurdly long yesterday, so we’re mentioning these separately today. There are two conferences coming up this fall that...
JJ Today has returned from a much-needed vacation out to Northern California. Despite trying to stay work-free, I managed to chew the...
Family Justice, a New York-based agency that was a pioneer in the method of helping the entire family of a child...
For 20 years, few juvenile justice systems have done little more than study the problem of disproportionate minority contact (DMC) in the...
Our previous post covered a new strategy on how to compel juvenile justice systems to address DMC rather than just study it...
More than 320 people turned out last week for the Wyoming Children’s Justice Conference, which was hosted by the Wyoming Supreme Court’s...
Anyone interested in learning about how the Reclaiming Futures model works should check into the July 9 webinar that will be hosted...
Kudos to Lise Olsen and whoever else pitched in at the Houston Chronicle to produce last month’s article on the transfer of...
YouthBuild has circulated guidance to its own network of sites entitled Memo on Accessing 2009 Recovery Act and Stimulus Funding Opportunities. Some...
*** If you don’t have plans from 3-4p.m. on June 30, the Council of State Governments Justice Center will be hosting a...
For all of the political chicanery associated with Illinois, its services to youth involved with the child welfare system are regarded by...
An expert panel for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the marketing of three psychotropic medications for use by...
***Connecticut a model of juvenile justice? It was pretty surprising to see that theme in the headlines of state newspapers last week....
It had been awhile since we got up to speed on the general goings-on of the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI), a...
The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges is holding its annual conference in Chicago on July 12-15. The conference offers...
New York’s highest court, by a 5-2 vote, has struck down a curfew ordinance in the city of Rochester ruling that it...