All posts tagged "Youth Development"

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...

National Assembly Launches Portal on Social Welfare History

The National Assembly has created a portal to historical websites on youth work and human services on its own web home. The...

Foundation Makes Noted Life Skills Training Curriculum Free for Schools, Youth Programs

With state budget cuts forcing many school districts to skimp on any type of education that won’t appear on a standardized test,...

Weekly Notes: The MacArth-nership; training program on services for crossover youth

*** There are 368 days left in Obama’s first term, and there is still no nominee to serve as administrator of the...

From the YT Archives: The Push for More L3Cs

President Barack Obama spent part of his hour-long State of the Union address Tuesday discussing a partnership between business and academia aimed...

The Need for Developmental Competence for Adults working with Youth

A New Mexico federal court judge recently received a complaint citing the following facts: a 13-year-old boy repeatedly belched in class.  While...

Weekly Notes: Helpful tool to seek unlikely partners in philanthropy; psych meds in the news again; big upcoming events in D.C.; and more

Notes is back after a week hiatus. We were going to post on Black Friday, but somebody pepper sprayed us in the...

Karen Mathis Leaving Big Brothers Big Sisters of America

Note: This story was updated on Dec. 1 with more up-to-date information on the organization’s finances. Big Brothers Big Sisters of America...

A New Push for Youth Worker Development, Credentials

A collection of youth work consultants and service providers has launched a fresh offensive at an old objective: Making the case for...

Notes from Juvenile Woodstock

All this week, JJ Today is roaming the hallways and meeting rooms of the National Juvenile Justice Conference hosted by the Office...

The Benson Index

In 1963, federal economist Mollie Orshansky devised a formula for measuring income adequacy and poverty in this country. The measurement was named...

Weekly Notes: Justice doles out grants; Casey’s shifting juvenile focus; Youth Justice Awareness Month; and more

***Day 988 of the Obama administration and still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...

Peter Benson, CEO of Search Institute, Dies at 65

Peter Benson, the long-time CEO of the Minneapolis-based Search Institute, died yesterday at the age of 65 after a year-long battle with...

Community College Groups Receive $500 Million in Job-Training Grants

Almost $500 million in grants to increase graduation rates and provide new job-specific community college programs targeted at unemployed workers were announced...

Kondracke to Retire as Head of America’s Promise

Marguerite Kondracke, president and CEO of America’s Promise Alliance, announced today that she plans to retire and the organization has begun a...

Drop That Knowledge: Youth Radio Stories

Drop That Knowledge: Youth Radio StoriesElisabeth Soep and Vivian ChávezUniversity of California Press224 pages. Most National Public Radio (NPR) listeners have heard...