NCJFCJ in the State of Kentucky
KENTUCKY
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.
As part of the Implementation Sites Project, the NCJFCJ provides targeted training and technical assistance to the Daviess Circuit Court, Family Division 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.
Judicial officers from Kentucky participated in the NCJFCJ’s Child Abuse and Neglect Institute (CANI). The CANI brought together a group of expert judicial faculty and other subject matter experts to engage participants through instruction, case scenarios, and active learning strategies. Some of the core topics of CANI include: the leadership role of the judge in child abuse and neglect cases; a review of federal laws and policies that drive the child abuse and neglect process; the Indian Child Welfare Act; reasonable efforts in judicial decision making; judicial ethics; and emerging issues in child welfare.
The NCJFCJ’s Judicial Education Development Initiative on Domestic Violence (JEDIDV) presented the Comings and Goings Domestic Violence Victim/Survivor Exercise at Kentucky’s statewide judicial conference.
The NCJFCJ’s first National Judicial Institute on Domestic Violence (NJIDV) 25th Anniversary Enhancing Judicial Skills in Domestic Violence Cases (EJS) workshop was hosted in Louisville, including pre-institute workshops on immigration and ethics cases involving domestic violence and the judicial role in civil and criminal safety assessments.
The NCJFCJ’s Technical Assistance to Technical Assistance Providers (TA2TA) Resource Center hosted, with the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), the Rural, Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program New Grantee Orientation and the Children and Youth and Engaging Men and Boys Program New Grantee Orientation in Louisville.
The state of Kentucky 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.
