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Opportunity Board Roundup: Juvenile Justice Grants, Jobs, Webinars and Events

Below you'll find a selection of the latest grants, jobs, webinars and events posted to our Opportunity Board. Please share the Reclaiming Futures Opportunity Board with your colleagues in the juvenile justice, adolescent substance abuse and teen mental health areas. It's free to browse and post!
Grants

Opportunity Board Roundup: Juvenile Justice Grants, Jobs, Webinars and Events

Below you'll find a selection of the latest grants, jobs, webinars and events posted to our Opportunity Board. Please share the Reclaiming Futures Opportunity Board with your colleagues in the juvenile justice, adolescent substance abuse and teen mental health areas. It's free to browse and post!
Grants

Opportunity Board Roundup: Juvenile Justice Grants, Jobs, Webinars and Events

Below you'll find a selection of the latest grants, jobs, webinars and events posted to our Opportunity Board. Please share the Reclaiming Futures Opportunity Board with your colleagues in the juvenile justice, adolescent substance abuse and teen mental health areas. It's free to browse and post!
Grants

  • Youth Service Improvement (New York)
    The YSIG program is open to community-based organizations in the five boroughs of New York City that want to improve the quality of the services they offer to young people ages 8 to 25. Awards are $25,000.
  • Volunteer Generation Fund FY13
    The Volunteer Generation Fund is designed to retain and increase the number of people who serve in meaningful roles as volunteers dedicated to addressing important needs in communities across America.

Opportunity Board Roundup: Juvenile Justice Grants, Jobs, Webinars and Events

Below you'll find a selection of the latest grants, jobs, webinars and events posted to our Opportunity Board. Please share the Reclaiming Futures Opportunity Board with your colleagues in the juvenile justice, adolescent substance abuse and teen mental health areas. It's free to browse and post!
Grants

  • OJJDP FY 13 National Resource Mentoring Center
    The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) supports a wide range of mentoring initiatives aimed at preventing and reducing juvenile delinquency. Under this solicitation, the successful applicant will develop the OJJDP National Mentoring Resource Center (NMRC), which will provide comprehensive mentoring resource, reference, and training materials and advance the implementation of evidence- and research-based mentoring practices.
  • Youth Service Improvement (New York)
    The YSIG program is open to community-based organizations in the five boroughs of New York City that want to improve the quality of the services they offer to young people ages 8 to 25. Awards are $25,000.

Opportunity Board Roundup: Juvenile Justice Grants, Jobs, Webinars and Events

Below you'll find a selection of the latest grants, jobs, webinars and events posted to our Opportunity Board. Please share the Reclaiming Futures Opportunity Board with your colleagues in the juvenile justice, adolescent substance abuse and teen mental health areas. It's free to browse and post!
Grants

  • Youth Intervention Planning Grants
    These 2-year planning grants are expected to build the capacity of child welfare systems to prevent long-term homelessness among the most at-risk youth/young adults with child welfare involvement. 18 grants will be awarded to non-profit organizations, state/local governments, small business, higher education institutions, etc.
  • Grants for Underserved Populations (Illinois)
    The Carl R. Hendrickson Family Foundation was established in 1991 to support and promote quality educational, human services, and health care programming for underserved populations. Grants of up to $35,000 will be awarded to select applicants. Nonprofit and charitable organizations are eligible to apply.
  • Community Benefit Grant (Louisiana)
    The purpose of this funding is to support an organization in the Greater New Orleans area that is focused on improving the health and well being of the community in the areas of childhood health, inter-generational health and active lifestyles. One grant of $100,000 will be awarded. Nonprofit organizations in Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa and Washington parishes are eligible to apply.

Opportunity Board Roundup: Juvenile Justice Grants, Jobs, Webinars and Events

Below you'll find a selection of the latest grants, jobs, webinars and events posted to our Opportunity Board. Please share the Reclaiming Futures Opportunity Board with your colleagues in the juvenile justice, adolescent substance abuse and teen mental health areas. It's free to browse and post!
Grants
 

  • Grief Reach
    Grief Reach is a partnership between the National Alliance for Grieving Children and the New York Life Foundation. The goal of this partnership is to provide funds to Children's Bereavement Programs to expand the reach of their programs to include underserved youth populations, ages 18 years and younger.
  • John R. Justice FY 2013 Program
    The JRJ Grant Program (also referred to as the John R. Justice Student Loan Repayment Program ("JRJSLR") provides loan repayment assistance for local, state, and federal public defenders and local and state prosecutors who commit to continued employment as public defenders and prosecutors for at least three years.
  • OJJDP Announces New Funding Opportunities
    The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) has announced several fiscal year 2013 funding opportunities, including National Juvenile Justice Information Sharing Training and Technical Assistance Program. OJJDP seeks applications for its national program to deliver training, technical assistance, and implementation support for information sharing among juvenile justice, child welfare, mental health, education, and other youth-serving agencies.
  • Alcohol Education Funds (Statesville, NC)
    Each year, as required by North Carolina law, the ABC Board in Statesville distributes 7% of its remaining gross receipts (after other designated distributions) for the treatment of alcoholism or substance abuse, or for research or education on alcohol or substance abuse. The exact amount of the funds to be distributed will not be determined until the annual audit is completed.

Opportunity Board Roundup: Juvenile Justice Grants, Jobs, Webinars and Events

Below you'll find a selection of the latest grants, jobs, webinars and events posted to our Opportunity Board. Please share the Reclaiming Futures Opportunity Board with your colleagues in the juvenile justice, adolescent substance abuse and teen mental health areas. It's free to browse and post!
Grants

  • John R. Justice FY 2013 Program
    The JRJ Grant Program (also referred to as the John R. Justice Student Loan Repayment Program ("JRJSLR") provides loan repayment assistance for local, state, and federal public defenders and local and state prosecutors who commit to continued employment as public defenders and prosecutors for at least three years.
  • OJJDP Announces New Funding Opportunities
    The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) has announced several fiscal year 2013 funding opportunities, including National Juvenile Justice Information Sharing Training and Technical Assistance Program. OJJDP seeks applications for its national program to deliver training, technical assistance, and implementation support for information sharing among juvenile justice, child welfare, mental health, education, and other youth-serving agencies.
  • Alcohol Education Funds (Statesville, NC)
    Each year, as required by North Carolina law, the ABC Board in Statesville distributes 7% of its remaining gross receipts (after other designated distributions) for the treatment of alcoholism or substance abuse, or for research or education on alcohol or substance abuse. The exact amount of the funds to be distributed will not be determined until the annual audit is completed.
     

Opportunity Board Roundup: Juvenile Justice Grants, Jobs, Webinars and Events

Below you'll find a selection of the latest grants, jobs, webinars and events posted to our Opportunity Board. Please share the Reclaiming Futures Opportunity Board with your colleagues in the juvenile justice, adolescent substance abuse and teen mental health areas. It's free to browse and post!
Grants

  • Grants for At-Risk Youth (Colorado)
    The LibertyGives Foundation supports causes benefiting underprivileged and at-risk youth in Colorado, focused on proactive and preventative services. Previous grantees include The Denver Street School, the Tennyson Center for Children, Teach for America, and Girls Incorporated of Metro Denver. Multiple awards ranging from $1,000-150,000 will be granted to select applicants. Nonprofit organizations based in Colorado are eligible to apply.
  • Bullying Prevention
    The Bullying Prevention Program is an initiative of New Jersey Child Assault Prevention for schools. The most effective prevention program for any school or district is one which involves the entire school community. As such, the program offers a series of workshops for staff, parents, and students to assess the specific nature of bullying in the school, to train adults in appropriate intervention strategies and to improve student interaction.
  • Street Outreach Program
    The purpose of this funding is to support programs offering street-based services to runaway, homeless, and street youth who have been subjected to, or are at risk of being subjected to, sexual abuse, prostitution, or sexual exploitation. Approximately 56 grants of $100,000 to $200,000 will be awarded to select applicants. Nonprofit organizations, state, county and city governments, and independent school districts are eligible to apply.

Reclaiming Futures Hiring in Portland, Oregon

Do you support juvenile justice reform and want to help communities break the cycle of drugs, alchohol and crime? 
Join our staff in Portland, Oregon, where Reclaiming Futures is improving the experience for teens in the juvenile justice system by providing adolescent substance abuse and mental health treatment in 37 communities around the country.
We are hiring for two dynamic positions, Strategic Partnership Development Director and Fellowship Program Manager. Please read the full position descriptions. Some highlights of these jobs include: 
Strategic Partnership Development Director

  • Secure major sustainability funding from private and government sources
  • Cultivate regional and national relationships with individuals and agencies
  • Establish financial and other partnerships with local, state and federal agencies, non-profit organizations, private foundations, and private or business sectors

Fellowship Program Manager

  • Provide leadership for the strategic direction of the fellowship program and seek input from staff, fellows and faculty across the country
  • Organize fellowship meetings’ activities and materials
  • Develop a webinar strategy to provide learning opportunities for sites and grow the national profile of Reclaiming Futures 

Closing the Business of Incarceration will Require Jobs, Reentry Programs

How do you bankrupt a brimming system of incarceration that is perversely incentivized to grow? According to New Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman, “you have to go to the source, and whether the source is education or whether it’s legislation, you really have to go to the source.” Gusman provided an upstream suggestion at the Loyola University New Orleans’ event, Louisiana Incarcerated: An Evening with Cindy Chang on June 26, 2012. However, many of the panelists pointed specifically to job training and employment as essential parts of the solution.
The event was centered around an acclaimed 8-part Times-Picayune series titled “Louisiana Incarcerated,” by reporter Cindy Chang. For the series, Chang talked with the formerly incarcerated and criminal justice reformers to get a complete story of the juvenile and criminal justice systems. The town hall styled symposium provided opportunities for panelists to offer their thoughts on the sources of Louisiana’s incarceration problems as well as potential solutions.
Concurring with Gusman’s perspective of root causes, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana Jim Letten said, “the most important part of our jobs is education and prevention. I wouldn’t have told you that 13 years ago.” Letten iterated what several panelists expressed during the panel sessions, which took place over the course of two hours.

Juvenile Justice Reform and Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment News Roundup

Juvenile Justice Reform
Ex-Police Chief: Reform Juvenile Justice
Omaha World-Herald
Former Omaha Police Chief Thomas Warren on Wednesday called for comprehensive reform of the state juvenile justice system, in response to a new study showing widespread racial disparities in how cases are handled.

Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment
Teen Use of Ecstasy and Speed Linked with Developing Depression
Join Together
A new study links teenagers’ use of Ecstasy and speed (methamphetamine and/or amphetamine) with a higher risk of developing depression.
Reclaiming Futures Opportunity Board.
The job listings and webinars below are from the Reclaiming Futures Opportunity Board. Please share these postings and events with your colleagues working in the juvenile justice, adolescent substance abuse and teen mental health areas. It's free to browse and post!
Jobs
Lecturer in Criminal Justice at Colorado Mesa University
Grand Junction
CO
Closes 5/4/2012
Program Officer at Open Society Institute
Baltimore
Maryland
Closes 5/4/2012
Juvenile Justice Consultant Title IV-E at Unificare, Ltd.
Dallas
TX
Closes 5/13/2012
Executive Director at Oklahoma Board of Juvenile Affairs
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Closes 5/25/2012
Community Justice Educational Program Coordinator at AmeriCorps
Providence
Rhode Island
Closes 6/24/2012
Juvenile Probation Officer III at Travis County
Austin
TX
Closes 8/15/2012

Work with Reclaiming Futures in North Carolina

The North Caroline Department of Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention has an opening for a Reclaiming Futures Trainer who will provide training and technical assistance to existing and newly developed sites to help build statewide capacity for Reclaiming Futures. 
Description of Work
This position provides training and technical assistance to existing and newly developed Reclaiming Futures sites to help build statewide capacity for the program. Curriculum-based training, adaptation of the national RF curriculum to North Carolina, planning and further meeting the training needs at each site will be required. Must be able to conduct quality field research (raining methods, subject matter), have strong consultation and collaboration skills and work well as a team player.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Effective methods/models of adult learning; multi-media tools and methods for delivering training; strong research skills (evaluating subject matter, lesson plans, curricula, etc); excellent oral and written communication skills; strong experince in delivering adult education/adult learning training using multiple methods and modes; strong coordination and management skills (multiple priorities and tasks); skills in evaluating training and quality improvement.

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