NCJFCJ in the State of Florida
FLORIDA
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 presented the Parenting Time/Custody and Domestic Violence Florida Statewide judicial training in Miami. Participants learned how to evaluate the impact of domestic violence on adult victims and children who experience abuse and identify the protection and restoration provisions related to developing a parenting plan/custody order.
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.
As part of the Implementation Sites Project, the NCJFCJ provides targeted training and technical assistance, and site visits, to the 15th Judicial Circuit Palm Beach County, 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’s Judicial Education Development Initiative on Domestic Violence (JEDI-DV), provided state-specific judicial education to Florida’s judicial officers on enhancing judicial responses to children’s cases involving domestic violence.
The NCJFCJ’s Judicial Education Development Initiative on Domestic Violence (JEDI-DV) provided state-specific judicial education on accountability, immigration, and responding to child-related proceedings involving domestic violence to Florida’s judiciary.
Judges and justice system professionals from Florida 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 state of Florida 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.
Judge Thomas E. Hornsby (Ret.) of Ponte Vedra Beach and Judge J. Dean Lewis Lohman (Ret.) of Naples are NCJFCJ Past Presidents.
