The NCJFCJ’s research division, the National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ), was established in Pittsburgh in 1973 to support the NCJFCJ’s mission with national children and youth data collections and ground-breaking applied research in juvenile and family court systems.

The NCJJ Director and the NCJFCJ Director of State and Legal Initiatives hosted a booth for a joint law school resources event for law students at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Duquesne University.

With funding from the Office for Victims of Crime, the NCJFCJ provides training and technical assistance to the WRAP Court in Philadelphia to enhance juvenile and family court responses to human trafficking.

The NCJFCJ held the Enhanced Resource Guidelines Training other Trainers in Pittsburgh to train judicial faculty on adult learning principles and the Enhanced Resource Guidelines.

The Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas Family Division Mentor Model Court, is recognized for its efforts to improve outcomes for abused and neglected children and their families.

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.

Judges and justice system professionals from Pennsylvania 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 National Conference on Juvenile Justice.

The state of Pennsylvania contributes juvenile court data to the National Juvenile Court Data Archive, funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). This national project of the NCJFCJ provides detailed and accurate information on the activities of the nation’s juvenile courts to juvenile justice professionals, policy makers, researchers, and the public.