NCJFCJ in the State of Wisconsin
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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.
Judges and justice system professionals from Wisconsin 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.
During 2024, Wisconsin 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.
Two multidisciplinary professionals from Wisconsin attended the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women’s (OVW) Legal Assistance to Victims (LAV) and Expanding Legal Services Initiative (ELSI) New Grantee Orientations, which were supported and hosted by the NCJFCJ’s TA2TA: The Technical Assistance Provider Resource Center.
The NCJFCJ’s Family Violence and Domestic Relations Program (FVDR) hosted its online faculty development course, Cultivating Core Competencies for Team Teaching and Facilitation that five judges from Wisconsin completed.
Two judges from Wisconsin attended the National Judicial Education Workshop on Guardianship and Elder Abuse hosted by the NCJFCJ’s Family Violence and Domestic Relations Program (FVDR) and its partner, Futures Without Violence.
The state of Wisconsin 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.
A multidisciplinary professional from Wisconsin 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.
Judge Ramona A. Gonzalez of La Crosse is a Past President of the NCJFCJ. Judge Layatalati Hill of Green Bay served as a 2025 Days on the Hill delegate for the NCJFCJ.
Multidisciplinary campus professionals from Carthage College, St. Norbert College, and Viterbo 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.
NCJFCJ team members worked with four Wisconsin judges and two judicial system professionals to create a Wisconsin-specific bench tool on the link between animal cruelty and interpersonal violence, which included Wisconsin-specific statutes, information about the link between animal cruelty and interpersonal violence, various factors to consider when handling family law cases where pet welfare may be an issue, and resources.
