Enhanced Resource Guidelines Implementation Evaluation Berrien County, Michigan | Family Division

With funding from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) developed the Implementation Sites Project to assist juvenile and family courts to integrate the best practices as outlined in the Enhanced Resource Guidelines: Improving Court Practice in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases (ERGs). The Implementation Sites Project provides specialized training and technical assistance to participating sites to improve court practices and outcomes for children in care by assessing current practices against the recommendations for child abuse and neglect case processing outlined in the ERGs and by establishing collaborative multi-disciplinary stakeholder teams to design and implement practice changes that align with the ERGs recommendations. This report presents findings from an evaluation of the Berrien County, Michigan, Family Division’s implementation of the ERGs.

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