NCJFCJ in the State of Louisiana
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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.
With funding support from the NoVo Foundation, the NCJFCJ provides training and technical assistance to the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court to identify and promote promising practices in juvenile and family courts to address child sex trafficking.
The NCJFCJ provided training during the Louisiana Protective Order Registry (LPOR) Office of the Judicial Administrator with the Supreme Court of Louisiana’s Annual Meeting in Baton Rouge. Louisiana judicial officers received training during their professional or development programming on common challenges and tips for teaching judicial education programs.
The NCJFCJ’s Judicial Education Development Initiative on Domestic Violence (JEDI-DV) provided a state-specific Enhancing Judicial Skills in Domestic Violence Cases (EJS) faculty development workshop to Louisiana judges.
A judicial system professional from Louisiana attended the NCJFCJ’s Judicial Engagement Network (JEN) Leadership in Practice Summit. The Summit focused on highlighting strategies currently implemented by jurisdictions to promote, implement, and sustain positive systemic changes that improve court and community responses to intimate partner violence in civil and criminal settings.
The New Orleans Parish Mentor Model Court is recognized for its efforts to improve outcomes for abused and neglected children and their families.
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.
Judges and justice system professionals from Louisiana 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.
Judge Ernestine S. Gray (Ret.) of New Orleans and Judge Salvadore T. Mule (Ret.) of Folsom are NCJFCJ Past Presidents.
