As part of the Implementation Sites Project, the NCJFCJ provides targeted training and technical assistance to the Rowan County District Court and Brunswick County District 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.

A NCJFCJ team member served as a co-panelist in a session on trauma-informed drug testing considerations at the Conference on the Impact and Response to Trauma for Children and Families held in Greenville.

North Carolina judicial system professionals participated in the Multidisciplinary Child Abuse and Neglect Institute. Participants received training on reasonable efforts; preliminary protective hearing best practice; initial review hearings; permanency hearings; and understanding court data.

Multidisciplinary professionals from North Carolina 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.

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.

Judge Beth S. Dixon of Salisbury and Major Sheffield Ford lll of Fayetteville are Board Directors of the NCJFCJ.