Youth Today
All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"
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Guest Opinion Essay
Three Candidates for OJJDP
[Note: This piece also appears in the Obama Job Watch in Youth Today‘s Latest News section] The scuttlebutt points to two widely-known...
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Bob Shepherd’s Archive Shows a Different Era of Federal Leadership
When you write, testify and speak as much as Bob Shepherd did, you tend to collect a lot of stuff; papers, reports,...
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News
Kevin Ryan Named First Lay President of Covenant House
Kevin Ryan has been named the first lay president of Covenant House (CH), the largest homeless youth services organization in North and...
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Weekly Notes-Jan. 16
JJ Today will be back Wednesday after the inaugural madness in Washington. ***As mentioned in our breaking news section yesterday, Jeff Slowikowski...
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What About Bob?
In a farewell message on OJJDP’s website, Flores ticked off a list of achievements made during his 6 ½-year tenure in the...
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Weekly Notes-Jan. 9
It’s been a slow week for JJ Today; we’re busy at work on a must-read story you will find in an upcoming...
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Weekly Notes-Jan. 2
Happy New Year to everyone! And as today officially marks JJ Today‘s second calendar year of existence, thanks to everyone who dropped...
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Guest Opinion Essay
How We Combat DMC
Mark Soler Some additional information about DMC is necessary to avoid error and misunderstanding. First, there are actually three goals in reducing...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Responses to YT’s Coverage of JDAI and Models for Change
Some people had strong reactions to “A Tale of Two Reforms,” John Kelly’s cover package last month about the Annie E....
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Guest Opinion Essay
MFC Boosts Aftercare
The article on Models for Change in Pennsylvania regrettably fails to capture the nature and substance of the initiative. Pennsylvania’s juvenile...
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Guest Opinion Essay
How MacArthur Builds Reform
Ned Loughran The story about Models for Change failed to capture how MFC is building a successful and sustainable reform effort in...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Sensationalism
I was disappointed to read John Kelly’s “Tale of Two Reforms.” I am the recently retired chief probation officer in Santa Cruz...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Progress in St. Paul
This letter is in response to statements in last month’s DMC story that questioned whether work done by the W. Haywood Burns...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Reporting Abuse
Thank you for publishing the article, “Overcoming Volunteers’ Reluctance to Report Abuse” [November]. To clarify the discussion of our work in the...
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Correction to November 2008’s “Tale of Two Reforms”
Correction Because of an editing error, a sidebar story to November’s “Tale of Two Reforms,” titled “Discontent on DMC,” referred to a...
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► Reports
Progress Report on the Shared Youth Vision Partnership
The Shared Vision Partnership provides no money but helps states figure out how to maximize resources going toward youth populations. For example,...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
AMI, Other Alternatives to Lockup Hit Hard by State Budget Cuts
While hopes are high in Washington that the federal government will soon make inspired investments in juvenile justice, the state dollars that...
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Number of Young Homicide Victims Rises
Young black males are being murdered, and being arrested for murder, at a far higher rate than they were in 2002, according...
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News
Madoff Scam Claims JEHT, Picower Foundations
Youth work lost two major benefactors to the apparent Ponzi scheme created by now infamous financial manager Bernard Madoff. New York-based grant...
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Burns Releases First in Series of DMC Reports
The San Francisco-based Burns Institute (BI) has released the first installment of “Adoration of the Question,” the first in a series of...
