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11/25/15
Technical Assistance Bulletin
Juvenile Competency Procedures

This is the 1st in a new series intended to support National Center for Juvenile Justice’s Juvenile Justice Geography, Policy, Practice & Statistics website development effort. The first StateScan publication released for the project addresses…

09/11/15
Brief
Understanding and Using Brief Interventions in the Juvenile Justi…

It continues to be a persistent struggle for juvenile justice professionals to accurately identify youth who suffer from substance use and abuse and to effectively refer those youth to the appropriate level of services. This…

09/10/15
Report
Juvenile Court Statistics 2013

Juvenile Court Statistics 2013 draws on data from the National Juvenile Court Data Archive (Archive) to profile nearly 1.1 million delinquency cases and 109,000 petitioned status offense cases handled in 2013 by U.S. courts with…

08/12/15
Publication
A Trauma Primer for Juvenile Probation and Juvenile Detention Sta…

Juvenile justice probation and detention workers play an important role in helping system-involved youth and families navigate justice and social service systems; achieving goals of accountability, competency, and community safety; and promoting safety, self-determination, and…

08/03/15
Publication
Mentoring in Juvenile Treatment Drug Courts

From December 2013 to January 2014, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges visited and observed mentoring programs at 10 juvenile treatment drug court (JTDC) sites and conducted a focus group to discuss…

07/13/15
Report
National Summit on Courts and the Military - 2015 Final Report

Under the auspices and leadership of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, a first-ever National Summit on Courts and the Military was convened in March 2015 at the U.S. Infantry Museum outside…

06/17/15
Report
Disproportionality Rates for Children of Color in Foster Care (Fi…

Since 2011, the NCJFCJ has published Disproportionality Rates for Children of Color in Foster Care Technical Assistance Bulletins, which identify national and state-level disproportionality rates. The reports have gained national attention and have been used…

05/18/15
Publication
Missing Children, State Care, and Child Sex Trafficking: Engaging…

This technical assistance brief is a publication of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and National Center for Missing & Exploited Children®. Juvenile and family court judges have an enormous responsibility for…

05/18/15
Technical Assistance Bulletin
Creating a Human Trafficking Strategic Plan to Protect and Heal N…

Children are particularly vulnerable to human trafficking. When dealing with trafficking cases, child safety must guide all efforts: child victims must be protected, physically and psychologically, from their traffickers and provided with placements and services…

05/04/15
Report
Research Report: 2014 Child Abuse and Neglect Institute

A recurring training offered by the NCJFCJ is the Child Abuse and Neglect Institute (CANI) which provides instruction in dependency court best practices for judicial officers who have either been newly assigned to child abuse…

05/04/15
Report
Research Report: Assessing Time-Certain Calendaring Dockets

There is not one nationally utilized method of calendaring dependency court cases. Rather, there are four common calendaring methods used to schedule these case types. These include (1) Block time, (2) Time-certain, (3) Combination of…

05/04/15
Report
Research Report: Assessing ICWA Compliance in Seattle, WA

In response to the high number of Native American children being removed from their homes, Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) in 1978. In 25 U.S. Code § 1902, Congress declared that the…

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