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By John Kelly A late 2019 conference in Seattle might have offered the first public indication of a new framework for investing grant dollars at the Annie E. Casey Foundation.  It was the most recent gathering of the Baltimore-based philanthropy’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative, held just before the coronavirus made such things lethal, at which the juvenile justice leadership heralded the project’s expansion into front-end system reform of probation and diversion.

JooYeun Chang, a veteran of child welfare policy and practice, is now the senior deputy director in charge of the Children’s Services Agency at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

Greetings, and farewell, from sunny Orlando! After two days in the shadow of America’s Mouse, the JDAI Inter-Site conference is a wrap. As we mentioned before it started, it’s unclear when the next one will be, or if the Annie E.

Greetings from Phoenix! Youth Services Insider, your faithful provider of industry news at The Imprint, is on the road this week reporting from both of the big annual juvenile justice conferences.

Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) introduced a bill late last week that would implement a number of the major foster care financing reforms proposed by two influential foundations last year. Chief among them: making all foster youth eligible for federal funding under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, but limiting federal funds to three years of foster care for each youth.

The Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative without Bart Lubow? Not quite. Lubow used the occasion of his retirement announcement to also make clear he isn’t completely leaving the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Bart Lubow, the chief architect of the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI), announced today that he will soon enter a “period of semi-retirement.” Lubow, who has been with Casey for 22 years, informed colleagues in a letter that he would leave his position as director of the Juvenile Justice Strategy Group in “several months.”

Bart Lubow, the chief architect of the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI), announced today that he will soon enter a “period of semi-retirement.” Lubow, who has been with Casey for 22 years, informed colleagues in a letter that he would leave his position as director of the Juvenile Justice Strategy Group in “several months.”

Youth Services Insider dropped in on a Capitol Hill briefing a week ago on a plan to restructure the federal IV-E foster care entitlement, which was proposed by Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) and Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative.