NCJFCJ in the State of Iowa
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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.
The Iowa Department of Human Rights, Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning 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.
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.
Judicial system professionals from Iowa participated in the Children and Youth and Engaging Men and Boys 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).
Judicial system professionals from Iowa 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).
The state of Iowa 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.
The landscape of juvenile justice in Iowa 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). JJGPS is an online resource that tracks juvenile justice reform in each state, allowing for comparisons within and across states.
Judge Forest E. Eastman (Ret.) of Waterloo is a NCJFCJ Past President.
