Wayne Bear

dog person, husband of gardener, which equates to gardener by proxy, advocate for people who work with justice involved youth

[National Partnership @NPJSnews]

Different week. A different #GoodWorks nomination.

For the category of Education of At-Risk Youth, we are proud to share this nomination for Nick Pastwa.

Here is what his nominator, Jim Shellard, Ed.D., Principal of Abraxas Naperville Bridge School had to say:

I am pleased to nominate Nick Pastwa for recognition as an outstanding teacher of at-risk youth. Nick consistently demonstrates creativity, patience, and dedication in his work with students who benefit greatly from engaging, hands-on learning experiences. In the science classroom, Nick creates an environment that sparks curiosity. He incorporates live animals (such as a snake, tarantula, and geckos) into lessons, giving students the opportunity to interact with science in a meaningful way. For many students who struggle in traditional academic settings, these experiences build confidence, responsibility, and genuine interest in learning.

Nick also integrates art and technology into his teaching by guiding students in creating stop-motion animation projects. These activities allow students to express themselves creatively while developing important skills in storytelling, collaboration, and digital media. Beyond the classroom, Nick builds strong relationships with students through extracurricular involvement. He works with students in our CAAEL athletic program and participates in the CHILL snowboarding program, providing opportunities for students to experience teamwork, sportsmanship, and to build resilience. Nick’s ability to connect with students across academic, creative, and athletic settings makes a profound impact on the lives of the young people he serves. His dedication, innovation, and genuine care for students make him truly deserving of recognition as an exceptional educator of at-risk youth.

Congratulations, Nick.

[NACo @NACoCounties]

How is your county addressing youth justice challenges?

Share your county’s story as part of NACo’s storytelling efforts and help highlight county-led solutions during National County Government Month.

Submit your stories here: https://t.co/9Q9EA1xgHS

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency https://t.co/iIdiB9lAgl

[Wayne Bear @WayneRBear]

@NPJSnews Tell us! What is the most pressing issue for you or your agency in offering the best quality services?

[National Partnership @NPJSnews]

The National Partnership for Juvenile Services (NPJS) is excited to host a 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦!

For additional information, please view the Student Art Contest Guidelines- https://t.co/awXziodAaX

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞: All artwork should reflect the Symposium theme: “𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆”. Artwork will be judged on artistic design and alignment with the theme. Symposium attendees will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite piece

Prizes: Gift Cards (to help cover the cost of a celebration, such as a pizza party) 1st Place – $100 Gift Card 2nd Place – $75 Gift Card 3rd Place – $50 Gift Card 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞:

All applications must be submitted by August 15, 2026 - Apply Now! Visit our website to learn more about the 2026 Symposium and the 2026 Leadership Institute - https://t.co/RnCGujGiva #studentartcontest #NPJS2026Symposium #CourageToChange

[National Partnership @NPJSnews]

It's a Good Works Thursday!

For the category of, Leadership, please help us congratulate Emanuel Shumate!

According to Eric Spierer who had nominated him,
"𝐸𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑒𝑙 𝑆ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑚 𝐷𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝐴𝑑𝑣𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑠 (𝑌𝐴𝑃), 𝐼𝑛𝑐., 𝑁𝐽 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝐴𝑛𝑡𝑖-𝑉𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑚 (𝑀𝑖𝑑𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑥 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑦) 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 2022. 𝐻𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝐷𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑢𝑟𝑒, 𝑀𝑟. 𝑆ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑, ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑡-𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑀𝑖𝑑𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑥 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑦, 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝐽𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑦. 𝐻𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑠 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑓𝑓 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠. 𝑀𝑟. 𝑆ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒’𝑠 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑚 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠. 𝐴𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑟𝑠, 𝑡𝑜 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑝𝑙𝑒. 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚, 𝑀𝑟. 𝑆ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝𝑠 𝑢𝑝 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑢𝑏𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑑. 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛’𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛."

Congratulations Emanuel! Keep up the amazing work you're doing.

Who can you nominate for our Good Works program?
#GoodWorks

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Thank you, Nicole McKenna, Ph.D., for sharing your research on trauma-informed care in juvenile detention facilities with our Short-Term Placement and Detention group.

Please check out Nicole's post on Linkedin -
https://t.co/bupOcs9mBX

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

The corruption is right out there in the open now.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

It is not a crime to film law enforcement in this country. It is a crime for agents, with no good reason, to draw weapons and attempt to arrest a citizen. But this Justice Dept. Is t here to enforce the law.

[Senator Andy Kim @SenatorAndyKim]

50 years ago today, the Supreme Court made a decision in Buckley v. Valeo that spending money on elections is protected speech. And if money is speech, its “expression” in politics can not be limited. Without this reasoning, there would be no Citizens United. 

Today, we are living through the disastrous consequences of that decision — a political landscape where billionaires have the ear of the President and corruption runs rampant.

These are not the characteristics of a true democracy. We must fight to ensure that every American has an equal voice in our government.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

If you draw the names of 1 MILLION Americans randomly out of a hat…

the odds of **ONE** of them being mentioned in the Epstein files is:

~0.299%

But how many members of Trumps inner circle and admin appear in there?

37. (So far)

[John Lounsbury @jlounsbury59]

Breaking the Fourth Amendment
by @JoyceWhiteVance
https://t.co/DpTHs51B5D
"As the Supreme Court explained in Johnson v. U.S., in 1948: “The point of the Fourth Amendment, which often is not grasped by zealous officers, is not that it denies law enforcement the support of the usual inferences which reasonable men draw from evidence. Its protection consists in requiring that those inferences be drawn by a neutral and detached magistrate instead of being judged by the officer engaged in the often competitive enterprise of ferreting out crime.”"

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

TONIGHT: President and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, @artisnstevens, sits down with Josh Johnson to discuss the power of mentorship @BBBSA

[Matt McDermott @mattmfm]

Must watch: ICE just admitted that despite claims of ‘targeted enforcement,’ in reality anyone who happens to be in the vicinity of a ‘target’ is fair game for interrogation.

It’s a dragnet terrorizing innocent Americans.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

WSJ reporting agents have to meet arrest quotas, and they get a stat even if the person is ultimately released. Trump/Noem/Miller & others creating those rules are responsible for all of this. https://t.co/CoJFd8WVzW

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Trump links Greenland dispute to not getting Nobel Peace Prize https://t.co/WPoxr1iZ9O

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Her father faced bribery charges. She donated $2.5 million to a pro-Trump Super PAC. Trump's Justice Department gave her father a lenient deal, overruling prosecutors. She gave another $1 million. Now Trump has pardoned her dad. @kenvogel @susannecraig https://t.co/UAwKC7NAbH

[National Partnership @NPJSnews]

As with the original Desktop Guide for Good Practice in Juvenile Detention, our new Desktop Guide for Quality Practice for Working with Youth in Confinement (Desktop Guide) is a working document intended to enlighten, inform, and challenge the user.

Please learn more - https://t.co/DF9FIRxluy

[Wayne Bear @WayneRBear]

@BillKristol I recommend the $3.00 bill

[Wayne Bear @WayneRBear]

@AVindman @SEPeaceMissions If this is true, and knowing the history of Kushner, it wouldn’t surprise anyone, this needs more media attention! Keep pushing it forward!