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Connecticut’s profile in courage

Time for a pop quiz: Earlier this month, police ruled the death of a five-month-old boy a homicide. The family was previously...

News

Spillett to Retire as BGCA President, Clark Named Successor

Roxanne Spillett, whose nearly $1 million salary as head of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America sparked a congressional investigation of...

Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist

Entry 12: Looking Back on a Decade I have been President of Promise House for ten years this month and with the...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

AED Finds Single Buyer, U.S. Programs Expected to Continue

The Academy for Educational Development is close to being acquired by major North Carolina nonprofit Family Health International (FHI), and, if the...

Judges Must Know Where Juveniles Are Going

Irene Sullivan, a former Florida juvenile judge and author of “Raised by the Courts,” shares her thoughts on the closure of the...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Alliance for Children and Families to Help Some Members Emphasize Strategy

The Alliance for Children and Families, a major trade group, has received a four-year, $5,375,000 grant to help 19 of its 350...

News

Letter from 19 Congressmen Urges Obama to Name a leader at OJJDP

A group of 19 congressmen is pressing the Obama White House to fill the long-vacant post of administrator of the Office of...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist

Entry 10: Inspiration Amidst the Gloom and Doom Amidst all the tribulations of budget cuts, program cuts, outrageous bills being passed, and...

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Newsmakers April 2011

Nonprofit Public/Private Ventures – a national research organization that evaluates employment, justice and youth development programs for low-income communities and uses that...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Schumer Backs Bill to Expand Background Checks

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has introduced a bill to take to scale a long-running pilot project that provides youth-serving organizations with access...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

AED to Sell Off Programs, Cease Operations after Charges

The Washington-based Academy for Educational Development has announced that it will sell off all of its programs and assets in the wake...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Weekly Notes (Updated 4/11): OJJDP during a Gov’t Shutdown; OJJDP job and Senate confirmations; request to ban juveniles from adult lockup; and more

UPDATE: Well, another last-minute deal averted a federal shutdown for now. The section immediately below was written in anticipation of one, and...

Federal Background Checks Vital for Youth Programs

Imagine you are a child having trouble feeling secure in your home environment. Or, maybe your parents are incarcerated. Or, perhaps, you...

News

Texas Sued over Services for Long-Term Foster Youth

Nonprofit litigator Children’s Rights has sued the State of Texas, accusing its child welfare system of failing to transition foster children back...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist

Entry 6 and Entry 7: Springing into a Slump Because a few blogs in row were time sensitive, we had to bump...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Schumer Bill Would Expand Affordable Background Checks for Youth Providers

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) introduced a bill on Friday to take to scale a long-running pilot project that provides youth-serving organizations with...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier