NCJFCJ in the State of North Dakota
NORTH DAKOTA
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.
Multidisciplinary professionals from North Dakota 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.
One judicial officer from North Dakota attended the 2024 Institute for New Juvenile and Family Court Judges. The Institute is designed specifically for state and tribal judicial officers who are new to the bench, newly assigned to a juvenile or family rotation, or who are returning to the juvenile and family court bench after other assignments and desire a refresher course. This intensive and interactive four and a half day program, previously known as Core College, is designed so participants can leave with increased knowledge, practical tools, and an essential foundation of best practices to use in the cases coming before them.
The NCJFCJ’s Judicial Education Development Initiative on Domestic Violence (JEDI-DV) provided judicial education on enhancing responses in civil protection order cases involving domestic violence to the North Dakota judiciary.
A judge from North Dakota attended the NCJFCJ’s National Judicial Institute on Domestic Violence (NJIDV) 25th Anniversary Enhancing Judicial Skills in Domestic Violence Cases (EJS) workshop.
A judge from North Dakota attended the NCJFCJ’s and Futures Without Violence’s Enhancing Judicial Skills in Abuse in Later Life Workshop.
Judges and justice system professionals from North Dakota 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 the National Conference on Juvenile Justice.
The landscape of juvenile justice in North Dakota 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).
