NCJFCJ in the State of Massachusetts
MASSACHUSETTS
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 hosted the 2025 National Conference on Juvenile Justice in Boston on March 16-19, 2025.
Massachusetts judicial system professionals participated in the NCJFCJ’s Child Abuse and Neglect Institute (CANI). The CANI brought together an group of expert judicial faculty and subject matter experts to engage participants through instruction, case scenarios, and other 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.
A multidisciplinary court team from Bristol County participated in the NCJFCJ’s National Multidisciplinary Institute on Child Sex Trafficking in August 2024.
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.
Multidisciplinary professionals from Massachusetts participated in the NCJFCJ’s Custody Evaluator Domestic Violence Institute and learned about the benefits and harms of the custody evaluation process for families experiencing domestic violence.
The NCJFCJ CEO, Joey Orduña Hastings, attended the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts Annual Conference in Boston. There, she examined a wide range of court challenges including substance use disorder, intimate partner violence, allegations of abuse and alienation, child sexual abuse in custody matters, stepfamily dynamics, mediation, parenting coordination, and working with children.
