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Juvenile justice reform articles, press releases and opinion essays featuring Models for Change states, networks and partners/grantees

Violence in the streets can start in the home: 5/17/2013 by WBEZ-FM (Chicago Public Radio); by Adriana Cardona-Maguigad; CHICAGO -- Ubaldina is a mother of six, who works the night shift at a packing company so she can be there when her kids come home from school. She’s raising her kids alone now. She said her…
Juvenile Justice shows progress: 5/16/2013 by Illinois Times; by Patrick Yeagle; When the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice was created in 2006, the state’s youth prisons held 1,500 juvenile offenders. Today, there are fewer than 900 kids behind bars in Illinois…
Two Major Juvenile Justice Bills Passed in Illinois Senate: 5/15/2013 by Juvenile Justice Information Exchange; by James Swift; On Tuesday, Illinois state senators passed two bills with potentially profound implications on the state’s juvenile justice system.
‘Math tutoring on steroids’ aims to help troubled Chicago teens, muscle out crime: 5/12/2013 by Chicago Sun-Times; by Frank Main; Math kills crime. That’s the result researchers expect from a program that combines “math tutoring on steroids” with sports-based mentoring for troubled teens in Chicago.
Transforming the Justice System by Partnering with Families: 5/6/2013 by Campaign for Youth Justice; by Neelum Arya; Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 …

Transforming the Justice System by Partnering with Families: 5/6/2013 by Campaign for Youth Justice; by Neelum Arya; Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 …

A Public-Private Partnership that Works: 5/23/2013 by Juvenile Law Center; by Autumn Dickman; Public-private partnerships are a staple of good government initiatives. Rarely, however, has such a partnership existed in juvenile justice on the scale of MacArthur Foundation’s…
Prevent crime by giving children the right start: 5/23/2013 by St. Louis Post-Dispatch; by St. Clair County (IL) State's Attorney Brendan Kelly; There is a growing consensus among law enforcement that we need to be doing much more on the front end to prevent crime on the back end. That’s why my office has created a Children’s…