The Travis County NCJFCJ Mentor Model Court for Children and Families is recognized for its efforts to improve outcomes for abused and neglected children, juvenile offenders, and their families.

As part of the Implementation Sites Project, the NCJFCJ provides targeted training and technical assistance to the Child Protection Court of Rio Grande Valley West, under the leadership of Judge Carlos Villalon, Jr., and to the Coastal Bend Children’s Court, under the leadership of Judge Jamie Rawlinson.

The NCJFCJ is funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to provide targeted support to the Bexar County Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Team, which is implementing the Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Guidelines and other key recommended practices. The NCJFCJ also provides targeted support to the Grayson County and Tom Green County Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Teams.

With funding support from the NoVo Foundation, the NCJFCJ provides training and technical assistance to the Texas multi-site court collaboration, including Travis, Hidalgo, Webb, Duval, Jim Hogg, and Zapata Counties, to identify and promote promising practices in juvenile and family courts to address child sex trafficking.

The Travis County Juvenile Probation Department is one of four jurisdictions receiving training and technical assistance as part of an OJJDP Second Chance Act award made to the NCJFCJ’s partner, the Performance-based Standards (PbS) Learning Institute.

The NCJFCJ presented the Bexar County Case Management Training for the Bexar County juvenile probation staff. During this nine-hour training, NCJFCJ team members discussed the use of screening and assessment information to drive decision making, the use of SMART goals (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound) in probation case planning, and the use of data in tracking youth progress.

NCJFCJ team members participated in The Five: Opportunities to Establish Equitable Youth Justice Systems event in Houston. The event, hosted by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, provided grantees an opportunity to learn about establishing equitable youth justice systems.

Judge Robert R. Hofmann of Mason is the President-Elect of the NCJFCJ. Judge Aurora Martinez Jones of Austin is a Board Director of the NCJFCJ and was a 2023 Days on the Hill Delegate. Justice Darlene Byrne of Austin and Judge Patricia A. Macias (Ret.) of El Paso are NCJFCJ Past Presidents.