NCJFCJ in the State of Tennessee
Work and Impact
Requests for technical assistance in 2024.
Trained judges, judicial officers, attorneys, and other juvenile and family court-related professionals working to protect Tennessee’s children, families, and survivors in our communities in 2024.
Judicial and Associate Members in Tennessee.
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, with funding from the State Justice Institute, selected the Davidson County Juvenile Court as an Enhanced Juvenile Justice Guidelines demonstration site, which works on evaluating current programs and creating avenues for diversion.
As part of the Implementation Sites Project, the NCJFCJ provides targeted training and technical assistance, and site visits, to the Blount 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.
Judicial system professionals from Tennessee participated in the Children and Youth and Engaging Men and Boys Program New Grantee Orientation hosted by the NCJFCJ’s Technical Assistance to Technical Assistance Provider’s (TA2TA) Resource Center and the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW).
The landscape of juvenile justice in Tennessee is detailed through the Juvenile Justice Geography, Policy, Practice and Statistics website (JJGPS.org), a project of the NCJFCJ’s research division, the National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ). JJGPS is an online resource that tracks juvenile justice reform in each state, allowing for comparisons within and across states.
Judges and justice system professionals from Tennessee 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.