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Youth Services Insider

2/23/2021

Mike Ambrose, Longtime Children’s Bureau Official, Dies at 82

Michael Ambrose Sr., a longtime official at the U.S. Children’s Bureau, was remembered in Washington, D.C., earlier this month as a man who had trekked to many of the nation’s great physical heights in search of adventure, yet remained decidedly down to earth during his 82 years.

8/28/2020

New Rule Puts Some Head Start Agencies Under Pressure to Improve

The federal government is hoping to improve the quality of local Head Start agencies’ programs by refining how it determines when grantees are falling short and must be thrown into competition for ongoing funding.

Youth Services Insider

12/20/2019

Trump Signs Spending Bill with Family First Sweeteners, Boosts to Head Start and Child Care

Just days after being impeached by the House of Representatives, President Donald Trump signed a spending bill for 2020 that includes hundreds of millions in funding to assist states with a recent overhaul of federal child welfare financing.

Youth Services Insider

3/21/2019

Trump’s 2020 Budget for Family and Youth Services

President Donald Trump released his 2020 spending proposal, dubbed “A Budget for a Better America,” late last week. On Monday, the Office of Management and Budget and various cabinet agencies released the fine print.

Johnson with foster son Eddie Heights at Heights' high school graduation in 2003. Photo courtesy of Dewayne Johnson

12/18/2018

Top Stories of 2018: Inspiring Stories from the Frontlines

Each day for the next two weeks, we’ll count down 10 of the biggest stories The Imprint published in 2018. In each, we’ll connect readers with a few links to our coverage of this issue.

6/13/2018

Self-Taught Techie Designs App to Get At-Risk Kids into Preschool

Steve Sturm believes every child should have the same opportunities that his 3-year-old daughter Reagan enjoys. Things like new boots, trips to the trampoline park — and preschool. But for children known to the foster care system, too many miss out on the earliest years of their education.

    Youth Services Insider

    10/30/2017

    Head Start Prevents Foster Care? To Be Decided

    The jury is decidedly out on the academic track record of Head Start, the education-oriented pre-school program for low-income families invented in the 1960s and federally proliferated in the early 1980s.

    Youth Services Insider

    7/22/2017

    Muhlhausen, Heritage’s Main Guy on Work Programs, to Lead National Institute of Justice

    The Trump Administration has tapped a longtime critic of federal social programs to head up the National Institute of Justice, the Justice Department’s central agency for research, standards development, and program evaluation.

    Youth Services Insider

    2/1/2017

    Trump’s First Month: What’s Happening At Federal Juvenile Justice, Child Welfare Offices

    Youth Services Insider has been trying to get a handle on what the early days of the Trump administration have brought on at two key youth services agencies: the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) at the Justice Department, and the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at Health and Human Services.