Training and technical assistance

The congressionally mandated tasks of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children include, but are not limited to:

• serving as the national resource center and information clearinghouse for missing and exploited children;
• operating a national 24-hour toll-free telephone line by which individuals may report information regarding the location of any missing child;
• operating a CyberTipline to provide online users and electronic...

This initiative will provide funding to (1) develop effective, well-resourced model juvenile indigent defender offices and (2) develop and implement standards of practice and policy for the effective management of such offices. Through training and technical assistance, this initiative will provide cost-effective and innovative training for the juvenile indigent defense bar and court-appointed counsel working on behalf of juvenile indigent defendants, particularly in traditionally underserved...

As many as 100,000 youth younger than 18 years old are released from juvenile correctional facilities every year. These young people often return to their communities with complex needs, such as physical and behavioral health issues and barriers to education and employment. This grant program will provide training and technical assistance to state and local government agencies and federally recognized Indian Tribes to support their...

Courts and child welfare agencies face significant challenges in managing complex child abuse, neglect, and related cases and heavy caseloads. In addition, they are required to comply with federal child welfare reform laws and initiatives to achieve safe, permanent placements for abused and neglected children. Through this program, OJJDP seeks to provide judicial, legal, and social service professionals with training and technical assistance to enhance...

This program will fund a national training and technical assistance program to enhance the effectiveness of attorneys and others who investigate and prosecute child abuse cases. The successful applicant will provide training and technical assistance, develop and disseminate publications, promote methods to provide project assessment and increase coordination among VOCA programs.

This program will provide funding to develop and operate a model national training and technical assistance program for child abuse professionals to enhance the coordinated multidisciplinary investigation and response to child abuse and to improve the judicial system’s handling of child abuse and neglect cases. The successful applicant will provide training and technical assistance, develop and disseminate publications and information resources, promote methods to provide...

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's (OJJDP) Tribal Youth Training and Technical Assistance Center provides culturally appropriate training, support, resources, information, and other related technical assistance to OJJDP's Tribal grantees and all federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes. This training and technical assistance focuses on capacity and infrastructure building, Tribal youth-specific programming, and works in collaboration with OJJDP's related training and...

The FY 2015 Unified Youth Violence Prevention Training and Technical Assistance program is designed to support prevention and reduction of youth violence and promotion of child, youth and family wellbeing in sites through strategic and focused TTA. The UVYP TTA provider will achieve this by brokering and/or directly making available a full range of high-quality, cost effective, and comprehensive training and technical assistance resources to...