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When it comes to writing policies that govern a nonprofit, certain basics usually get covered. Nonprofits draft whistleblower policies, executive compensation policies and conflict of interest po...

https://youthtoday.org/2014/12/get-proactive-write-policy-to-make-your-nonprofit-more-inclusive/

Most of the skills required to be a successful and competent youth worker are introduced on the job with the help of supervisors, mentors and coaches. The post Intentional Supervision in the De...

https://youthtoday.org/2014/07/intentional-supervision-in-the-development-of-professional-youth-workers/

It is the legislative season in Illinois and around the country, and that means advocates spend lots of time trying to improve the juvenile justice system and trying to defeat bills that would hi...

https://youthtoday.org/2014/05/an-opportunity-to-remake-juvenile-justice/

BALTIMORE — Nearly 400 people, including mayors, city officials, educators and nonprofit workers, are in Baltimore for two days this week to learn from a decade of research into after-school pr...

https://youthtoday.org/2013/02/updated-national-after-school-conference-kicks-off-in-baltimore/

Statistics has a bad reputation in some quarters, including, unfortunately, sometimes among people working in youth services. I’m not sure if this is due to an unfortunate experience in a requi...

https://youthtoday.org/2013/02/statistics-isnt-a-scary-word-just-do-the-math/

Bridgespan Group For nonprofits that rely primarily on philanthropic support, membership or user fees, says the Bridgespan report, overall economic recovery is a light at the end of their collect...

https://youthtoday.org/2012/02/the-view-from-the-cliff/

*** There are 368 days left in Obama’s first term, and there is still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The new Acting Administr...

https://youthtoday.org/2012/01/weekly-notes-the-macarth-nership-training-program-on-services-for-crossover-youth/

Melodee Hanes has replaced Jeff Slowikowski as acting administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, reaffirming what many already thought to be the case: there will ...

https://youthtoday.org/2012/01/melodee-hanes-named-acting-administrator-of-ojjdp/

A group of nonprofits will work with the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation to establish a national hub for state child welfare reform assistance. The State Policy Advocacy and Reform Cent...

https://youthtoday.org/2012/01/national-hub-started-for-state-child-welfare-reform/

Happy holidays and Happy New Year to all our readers. Here is hoping that wherever they are, and whatever they did, juvenile offenders locked up during these next two weeks have a chance to see o...

https://youthtoday.org/2011/12/weekly-notes-date-set-in-lwop-case-texas-job-loses-one-candidate-gains-another-and-more/

In 1971, Massachusetts juvenile justice boss Jerry Miller and his lead staffer, Tom Jeffers, sat down in a Boston pub and decided to blow up the way Massachusetts had handled juvenile justice for...

https://youthtoday.org/2011/12/learning-from-massachusetts-juvenile-justice-experiment/

Illinois has seen significant changes to the front-end of its juvenile justice system, but its system of releasing and assisting incarcerated juveniles is a procedural mess, according to a report...

https://youthtoday.org/2011/12/illinois-probe-finds-rushed-unmeasured-process-for-juvenile-release-reentry-and-parole/

Note: Youth Today received the following letter in response to an article last week about Child Welfare League of America. It was written by CWLA Chairman Joe Costa and CEO Christine James-Brown,...

https://youthtoday.org/2011/12/cwla-youth-today-didnt-tell-the-whole-story/

***A slew of juvenile justice experts were in the old capitol city this week for the MacArthur Foundation’s Models for Change conference and the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s “Shutting Down t...

https://youthtoday.org/2011/12/weekly-notes-a-lively-luncheon-new-justice-grants-help-shape-wyomings-new-juvie-center-and-more/

Veronica Carrillo, a veteran employee of Child Protective Services in Sacramento County, Calif., still remembers the frantic afternoons child caseworkers once devoted to “bed finding.” A work...

https://youthtoday.org/2011/12/keeping-foster-youths-school-connection/

The Child Welfare League of America has taken drastic steps to stay alive as competition and the economy have driven membership down by nearly 60 percent, but its ultimate survival will rest in a...

https://youthtoday.org/2011/12/fate-of-child-welfare-league-of-america-rests-with-pension-plan/

Administration for Children and Families Positive relationships between service providers and the adults receiving services are connected with better outcomes for youth, according to this literat...

https://youthtoday.org/2011/12/family-provider-relationships-a-multidisciplinary-review-of-high-quality-practices-and-associations-with-family-child-and-provider-outcomes/

Administration for Children and Families Positive relationships between service providers and the adults receiving services are connected with better outcomes for youth, according to this literat...

https://youthtoday.org/2011/11/family-provider-relationships-a-multidisciplinary-review/

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

https://youthtoday.org/2011/11/a-new-push-for-youth-worker-development-credentials/

The Premise and Promise of the California Connected by 25 Initiative The Promising Strategies from the California Connected by 25 Initiative Stuart Foundation The two reports lay out the impetus ...

https://youthtoday.org/2011/11/reports-on-the-california-connected-by-25-initiative/