The NCJFCJ is funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to provide targeted support to the Clark County, Cuyahoga County, and Montgomery County Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Teams, which are participating in a large-scale research project to determine whether juvenile drug treatment court practices produce positive outcomes for youth and families.

With funding from the Office for Victims of Crime, the NCJFCJ provides training and technical assistance to the Cuyahoga Court of Common Pleas Juvenile Division to enhance juvenile and family court responses to human trafficking.

The NCJFCJ’s Field-Generated Strategies to End the Criminalization of Minor Victims of Sex Trafficking project, funded by the Office for Victims of Crime, provides direct training and technical assistance to the Summit and Medina County Human Trafficking Youth Prevention and Decriminalization Project and to Gracehaven, Inc. in Columbus to broaden its network of comprehensive case management and residential group home services in the state.

With funding support from the NoVo Foundation, the NCJFCJ provides training and technical assistance to the Lucas County Juvenile Court to identify and promote promising practices in juvenile and family courts to address child sex trafficking.

The NCJFCJ hosted the Tune-In Tuesday: Montgomery County Natural Helpers Program webinar which highlighted how the program connects court-involved youth with mentors. The Natural Helpers program also provides mentoring to court-involved youth to build pathways beyond treatment by connecting the youth with pre-screened and trained volunteers.

Multidisciplinary professionals from Ohio participated in the Office on Violence Against Women’s Campus Training and Technical Assistance Institute (TTI). These Institutes occur five times per year and are designed to provide college and university campuses with information, training, and resources to enhance their capacity to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campuses.

The NCJFCJ has 102 Judicial and Associate Members in Ohio. The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption in Dublin is an organizational member of the NCJFCJ.

Judge Anthony (Tony) Capizzi of Dayton, Judge David E. Stucki (Ret.) of Brewster, and Judge James A. Ray (Ret.) of Waterville are NCJFCJ Past Presidents.

Judge David A. Hejmanowski of Delaware is an NCJFCJ Board Director. Judge Denise Navarre Cubbon of Toledo is the NCJFCJ’s Amicus Council Chair. Judge Cubbon and Judge Helen Wallace of Dayton served as 2023 Days on the Hill Delegates.

The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption in Dublin is an organizational member of the NCJFCJ.