All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"

• 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...

• 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...

• Opinion

  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...

• Opinion

  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....

• Opinion

  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...

• Opinion

  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...

• Opinion

  Sensationalism

  I was disappointed to read John Kelly’s “Tale of Two Reforms.” I am the recently retired chief probation officer in Santa Cruz...

• Opinion

  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...

• Opinion

  Reporting Abuse

  Thank you for publishing the article, “Overcoming Volunteers’ Reluctance to Report Abuse” [November]. To clarify the discussion of our work in the...

• 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...

• ► 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,...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• JEHT Done in By Madoff

  New York-based grant maker JEHT abruptly closed its doors today because its primary donor’s money was lost by the now infamous financial...

• Weekly Notes-Dec. 11

  ***Last week, the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice met for its final quarterly meeting of 2008. It was the last convening of...

• Tippecanoe Watch #3: We Bid You Good Day

  Last time JJ Today checked with Tippecanoe County, in October, the economy had recently hit the skids. Proponents of a new juvenile...

• Scott’s PROMISE Needs a Sister Act

  If reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 is the gold medal for juvenile justice advocates, passage of...

• JPI to States: Ignore Adam Walsh Act

  JJ Today reported over the summer about some serious implications of states coming into compliance with the Adam Walsh Act, which was...