YouthBuild USA This report on YouthBuild’s Youthful Offender Project stresses the need for re-entry programs to prevent recidivism. Part of the U.S....
The Reclaiming Futures initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation has been successfully working to reform systems of care for juvenile...
With juvenile justice reforms and investigations going on around the country, it’s difficult to keep track of all the innovations, achievements and...
Dayton (Ohio) Daily News Two Montgomery County judges are changing the philosophy of their juvenile justice system from one focused on incarceration...
Washington, D.C.www.campaignforyouthjustice.org Objective: To end the practice of trying youth as adults. In a Nutshell: The campaign teams with national, state and...
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, California Researchers say that high school dropouts in California are three-and-a-half times as likely as high school...
Vanderbilt University – Owen Graduate School of Management and City University of New York – John Jay College of Criminal JusticeAvailable at...
The following is a response to the December story, “For Juvenile Justice, a Panel of One,” about grant awards by the U.S....
Trying juveniles as adults and housing them in adult prisons is “counterproductive” – leading to higher and often more violent recidivism rates...
The Providence (R.I.) Journal More than 500 17-year-olds are making their way through Rhode Island’s adult justice system because they had the...
National Center for Juvenile Justice The most recent in the Juvenile Court Statistics series, this report describes delinquency cases handled between 1985...
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids – New York According to this report, nearly three-quarters of the 17,500 juveniles held in New York...
http://www.jdaihelpdesk.org The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative offers this practice-based, informational resource for practitioners, policymakers and advocates interested in...
www.askthejudge.info A Q&A with a real judge answering common legal questions from teens, such as “What happens to me if my parents...
One grant proposal was to improve evaluations of state juvenile justice programs. The two Justice Department reviewers loved it, each giving it...
Child Welfare Adoption Learning Partnerswww.adoptionlearningpartners.org/courses/overview.cfmTwo new online courses at this site aim to educate prospective adoptive parents about a variety of...
This is the 14th report in the Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) Pathways series on juvenile detention reform. It documents...
Residential treatment programs operating as wilderness therapy programs, boot camps and academies cite positive outcomes, but there have been numerous allegations regarding...
Log on to these news organization’s websites and search for the headline through the site’s search or archive feature. Child Welfare Foster...
Jessica Kendall American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law 130 pages. $19.99. Kendall makes recommendations for progressive reforms in state...