NCJFCJ in the State of Alabama
ALABAMA
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.
With funding support from the NoVo Foundation, the NCJFCJ provided training and technical assistance to the Jefferson County Juvenile Court to identify and promote promising practices in juvenile and family courts to address child sex trafficking.
A multidisciplinary court team from Jefferson County participated in the NCJFCJ’s National Multidisciplinary Institute on Child Sex Trafficking in August 2024.
The state of Alabama 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.
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 Montgomery County Family Court Mentor Implementation Site is recognized for its efforts to improve outcomes for abused and neglected children and their families.
A judicial system professional from Alabama attended the Courting Judicial Excellence: A Juvenile Justice Judicial Training Institute. The Institute, sponsored by the Council for State Governments and the NCJFCJ, and with funding from the State Justice Institute, provided an intensive and interactive four and a half day program designed to give participants an essential foundation of best practices to use in delinquency cases.
An Alabama judge was trained to provide the Comings and Goings Domestic Violence Victim/Survivor Exercise and facilitated this exercise at Alabama’s local chapter of the legal professionals association.
Judges and justice system professionals from Alabama 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 NCJFCJ has 11 Judicial and Associate Members in Alabama.
