NCJFCJ in the State of Kansas
KANSAS
In 2024, the NCJFCJ’s work impacted approximately 4 million families across the nation. Our publications amassed over 94,000 views, the team fulfilled over 150 requests for technical assistance, and trained over 15,000 judges, judicial officers, attorneys, and other juvenile and family-court related professionals across the nation.
The NCJFCJ’s Civil Protection Order Project provided bench cards and resources on domestic violence and civil protection orders for new judges taking the bench in Kansas. The Civil Protection Order Project also discussed challenges and provided case law research on jurisdiction and civil protection orders when the respondent lives in and is engaging in technological abuse from another state.
Multidisciplinary campus professionals representing student conduct, law enforcement, and prevention participated in the Office on Violence Against Women’s Campus Training and Technical Assistance Institute (TTI), an opportunity extended to each campus grantee five times over the course of three years. These in-person institutes combined with webinars and intensive, customized support from national experts are designed to help college and university campuses enhance their capacity to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campus.
A judge from Kansas attended the Institute for New Juvenile and Family Court Judges. The Institute is designed specifically for state and tribal judicial officers who are new to the bench, newly assigned to a juvenile or family rotation, or who are returning to the juvenile and family court bench after other assignments and desire a refresher course.
As part of the Implementation Sites Project, the NCJFCJ provides targeted training and technical assistance, and site visits, to the Geary County District Court to improve practice in the handling of child abuse and neglect cases, reduce the number of children in foster care, and improve outcomes for children in care.
Judicial system professionals from Kansas participated in the Rural, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program New Grantee Orientation hosted by the NCJFCJ’s Technical Assistance to Technical Assistance Provider’s (TA2TA) Resource Center and the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW).
Judges and justice system professionals from Kansas received specialized child welfare, domestic violence, and juvenile justice training on current and cutting-edge topics and research during the NCJFCJ’s Annual Conference and National Conference on Juvenile Justice.
The landscape of juvenile justice in Kansas is detailed through the Juvenile Justice Geography, Policy, Practice and Statistics website (JJGPS.org), a project of the NCJFCJ’s research division, the National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ).
