While mediation offers many parents an alternative to formal and often adversarial court processes, they may also present serious safety and parenting consequences for domestic violence survivors and their children. The Resource Center on Domestic Violence: Child Protection and Custody offers this webinar to help advocates orient survivors to common custody mediation processes, make them aware of risks that mediation may pose, and suggest tangible ways to help survivors prepare for the mediation.
Judicial leadership is a cornerstone of the system reform efforts of the NCJFCJ’s Implementation Sites Project. Judges are uniquely positioned to facilitate systems’ reform and are essential catalysts for improving our court’s responses to child…
The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) with support from the State Justice Institute (SJI) is hosting a series of webinars titled Opioids and the Courts- Difficult Conversations. Join NCJFCJ and expert faculty as we explore…
To raise awareness of the estimated 656,000 children who have abuse, neglect, or maltreatment last year, join the NCJFCJ and Too Small to Fail, the Clinton Foundation’s early childhood initiative, to share a virtual pinwheel. Watch this special…