NCJFCJ in the State of Nebraska
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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.
In partnership with the Robert F. Kennedy National Resource Center for Juvenile Justice (RFK), the NCJFCJ conducted a juvenile probation data capacity assessment for Lancaster County, one of six sites selected for a comprehensive juvenile probation transformation project. The success of the efforts in the Lancaster County site led to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) funding awarded to the Administrative Office of Courts and Probation to expand the RFK juvenile probation transformation work, including the NCJFCJ’s data capacity assessment process in additional Nebraska jurisdictions during 2024.
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 Project Harmony’s Anti-Trafficking Youth Services Program in Douglas County. Stakeholders, including law enforcement, judicial officers, attorneys, probation officers, and direct service providers, participated in a strategic planning meeting to determine next steps to ensure that victims of trafficking are connected to resources.
The NCJFCJ assisted court and legal professionals in Nebraska to access training on engaging youth in dependency hearings as part of the Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency.
As part of the Implementation Sites Project, the NCJFCJ provides targeted training and technical assistance, and site visits, to the Hall County Juvenile 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.
The NCJFCJ provided the training Connecting the Dots: Applying the Enhanced Resource Guidelines and the Safe Baby Court Approach to Enhance the Safety for Nebraska’s Most Vulnerable.
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.
The state of Nebraska contributes juvenile court data to the National Juvenile Court Data Archive, funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). This national project of the NCJFCJ provides detailed and accurate information on the activities of the nation’s juvenile courts to juvenile justice professionals, policy makers, researchers, and the public.
