NCJFCJ in the State of West Virginia
WEST VIRGINIA
The following provides an overview of the NCJFCJ’s work in 2025, which impacted approximately 4 million families nationwide. During the year, NCJFCJ publications amassed more than 153,000 views, the team fulfilled nearly 400 requests for technical assistance, and over 10,000 judges, judicial officers, attorneys, and other juvenile and family-court related professionals were trained across the nation.
Multidisciplinary campus professionals from WVU Potomac State College and West Virginia University, representing student conduct, law enforcement, and prevention, participated in the Office on Violence Against Women’s (OVW) 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.
One stakeholder from West Virginia participated in the Civil Protection Orders – Community Engagement Network Learning Communities, which brought justice-related professionals together to discuss challenges and strategies to address the intersections of protection orders with access to justice, firearms, and working with self-represented litigants.
During 2024, West Virginia participated in a 50-state national overview of how courts are coordinating data and practice when young people have dual system status in youth justice and child welfare. Results were published in the fall of 2025.
Multidisciplinary professionals from West Virginia attended the virtual Safe and Accessible Forensic Interviewing with Elders (SAFE) training hosted by the NCJFCJ’s Family Violence and Domestic Relations Program (FVDR) through its Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) funded TA2TA: The Technical Assistance Provider Resource Center project.
The landscape of juvenile justice in West Virginia 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.
The state of West Virginia 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.
