With funding from the Office for Victims of Crime, the NCJFCJ provides training and technical assistance to the Queens Community Justice Center to enhance juvenile and family court responses to human trafficking.

With funding support from the NoVo Foundation, the NCJFCJ provides training and technical assistance to the New York City Family Court to identify and promote promising practices in juvenile and family courts to address child sex trafficking.

Judicial officers from New York participated in the NCJFCJ’s Child Abuse and Neglect Institute (CANI). The CANI brought together an outstanding group of expert judicial faculty and other subject matter experts to engage participants through exemplary 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.

Judicial system professionals from New York attended the Enhancing Judicial Skills in Domestic Violence Cases (EJS) workshop. Participants engaged in practical courtroom exercises and learned about victim and perpetrator behavior and fairness and culture issues in domestic violence cases.

Multidisciplinary professionals from New York participated in the Office on Violence Against Women’s Campus Training and Technical Assistance Institute (TTI). These Institutes occur five times per year and are designed to provide college and university campuses with information, training, and resources to enhance their capacity to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campuses.

Judicial system professionals from New York 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.

Judge Jane Pearl of New York City is an NCJFCJ Board Director. Judge Erik Pitchal of Brooklyn was a 2023 Days on the Hill Delegate. Alicin Reidy Williamson, Chief Diversity and Culture Officer at Yahoo! in New York City is on the Amicus Council of the NCJFCJ. William C. Silverman of New York City is a Sustaining Member of the NCJFCJ.