NCJFCJ in the State of Connecticut
CONNECTICUT
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 Connecticut Judicial Branch Court Support Services Division is one of four jurisdictions receiving training and technical assistance as part of an Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Second Chance Act award made to the NCJFCJ’s partner, the Performance-based Standards (PbS) Learning Institute. The Improving Juvenile Reentry Program’s Data Collection, Analysis, and Reporting project will build state and local capacity to collect and use data to inform decision making, monitor progress of juvenile reentry programs and services, and ensure they meet targeted outcomes for reducing reoffending.
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 the Love146 organization to expand its Connecticut Survivor Care Program.
NCJFCJ team members conducted a site visit in New Haven as part of the Field Based Strategies to Ending the Criminalization of Minor Victims of Trafficking project.
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.
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 NCJFCJ’s Judicial Education Development Initiative on Domestic Violence (JEDI-DV) presented virtual education on monitoring firearms compliance in criminal and civil protection orders to Connecticut multidisciplinary professionals.
A justice system professional from Connecticut received specialized child welfare, domestic violence, and juvenile justice training on current and cutting-edge topics and research during the NCJFCJ’s National Conference on Juvenile Justice.
