First Focus applauds
Obama’s proposed budget for making children a priority, especially through
early childhood education and child nutrition, but raises ...
Voting for top questions to US Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, is now closed. To continue taking action, please visit the SparkAction Action Center and our ...
This Vera Institute report finds that, despite formidable obstacles, Washington, DC’s DYRS made significant reforms in the last 5 years to change from a ...
In this video, a juvenile justice expert discusses a reentry program that uses education, treatment, and a strength-based approach designed to reduce drug use, risky ...
Learn "what works" principles gleaned from the Center for Juvenile
Justice Reform's meta-analysis of 548 juvenile justice studies to
evaluate your community's ...
Real-life research from Oregon puts numbers on crimes prevented and
costs avoided after evidence-based practices were used to provide
quality services to youth who ...
In the Capitol on October 26, 2010 leading researchers in juvenile justice discussed how to meet the goals of the Second Chance Act using evidence across a variety of ...
How can mentors, professionals and caregivers help teens find work? This 2007 article recently highlighted in
Reclaiming Futures is for anyone working with at-risk ...
The state of Missouri’s approach to juvenile detention is designed to help troubled teens make lasting behavioral changes so that they can successfully ...
As many as 9 in 10 youth in justice system have experienced a traumatic event, yet few such youth are identified as traumatized, and fewer receive appropriate ...
A look behind the numbers in the latest Department of Justice annual report and the Obama administration's proposed budget. "This year's federal budget will be the ...
Did you know that many American schools suspend over 50% of their students of a given race or ethnicity each year? A new report from the Southern Poverty Law ...
Teens share their personal stories about struggles in and out of juvenile detention centers, and how none of them compare to Missouri's Rosa Parks Center where dorms ...
Here's an in-depth look at how a group of charter schools are working with homeless students who have dropped out of or been expelled from public schools -- and ...
Mayor Adrian Fenty fired the head of the city's juvenile rehabilitation
agency under mounting political pressure to make changes to a system
that has
seen five of ...
Amid budget woes and lower juvenile arrest rates, states are quietly shutting
large juvenile prisons, as advocates for juvenile justice reform cheer. Ohio is leading ...
