NCJFCJ in the State of Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA
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 presented the Enhancing Responses to Domestic Violence Cases Technical Assistance and Training Program for the Oklahoma judiciary. Judicial officers learned how to evaluate the impact of domestic violence on adult victims/survivors and children who experience abuse/violence; discuss common tactics abusive partners employ to control intimate partners and families; and identify the protection and restoration requirements of domestic violence victims/survivors
As part of the Implementation Sites Project, the NCJFCJ provides targeted training and technical assistance, and site visits, to the Oklahoma County Juvenile Court 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.
The NCJFCJ conducted a trauma consult on behalf of Zero to Three in Tulsa and Wagoner County.
The NCJFCJ team presented at the 2024 Violence Against Women Act Training by the Choctaw Nation.
Judicial officers from Oklahoma participated in the NCJFCJ’s Child Abuse and Neglect Institute (CANI). The CANI brought together an 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.
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.
The NCJFCJ’s Judicial Education Development Initiative on Domestic Violence (JEDIDV) presented the Comings and Goings Domestic Violence Victim/Survivor Exercise at Oklahoma’s annual judicial conference.
The NCJFCJ’s JEDI-DV presented judicial education in five cities, Tulsa, McAlester, Oklahoma City, Enid, and Chickasha, over a one-week period, on enhancing judicial responses in domestic violence cases.
