All posts tagged "Youth Development"

The Racial Gap in Learning, Discipline

When is a three-day suspension simply three days out of school, and when is it the first step into the school-to-prison pipeline?...

Mindful of the Consequences: How Improving the Mental Health of D.C. Youth Benefits the District

Three Years On, Watchdog Nominee Advances in Senate

WASHINGTON -The country’s largest funder of service and volunteer programs is one step closer to filling a leadership vacancy at its watchdog...

Sandusky’s Lessons: Six Keys to Creating an Effective Child Protection Policy

The Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse case has shone a harsh light on the limitations of the child protection policies put in place...

Applications Now Available for CJJR’s Information Sharing Certificate Program

The Center for Juvenile Justice Reform at Georgetown University‘s Public Policy Institute, in partnership with the Juvenile Law Center, has announced its inaugural Information Sharing Certificate...

Analyzing State Differences in Child Well-Being

“Got Rights Project” Seeks to Inform LGBT Students of Legal Rights

This month, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) and The Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth (BAGLY) have...

Pew Research Report – Young, Underemployed and Optimistic: Coming of Age, Slowly, in a Tough Economy

Sexual Experience and Contraceptive Use Among Female Teens — United States, 1995, 2002, and 2006–2010

Grants Awarded – Week of April 30th, 2012

  Students in Free Enterprise and Lowe’s TO: United Neighborhood Center$2000-To build a new playground and exercise area for kids.   CarMax...

Children in the United States – Report and Factsheet

Analysis of Obama’s Budget Proposal as it Relates to Youth Issues

“A breakdown and analysis of the President’s 2013 budget proposal as it relates to children and families.”

Report on Special Education Placement Policies in State of Massechusetts

Upcoming Webinar Tackles Media Depictions of African-American Men and Boys

Last October, The Opportunity Agenda, a New York-based advocacy group, released a new report about the influence of media in regards to national...

Day Two: John Jay Juvenile Justice Conference

NEW YORK – The John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s Center on Media, Crime and Justice is holding a two-day conference for journalists on...

A Juvenile Justice System in Flux: Updates from John Jay Symposium

NEW YORK – The John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s Center on Media, Crime and Justice is holding a two-day conference for journalists on...

Secretary of Education Unveils Blueprint to Reform Nation’s Vocational Education System

Young Inmates Doing Thyme in the Prison Garden

On a football-field-sized stretch of land beside the Walton County Jail in tiny Monroe, Ga., a tractor tiller turned weed-choked rows of...

Getting Up: Improving Youth Outcomes with Graffiti in Denver

Graffiti is a common site in the neighborhood around the Access Art Gallery in Denver – not inside, hanging on the walls...

Weekly Notes: New grants doled out by Public Welfare, MacArthur; research on school crime; and more

***There are 331 days left in the first term of President Barack Obama, and the president has still not nominated someone to...