Center for Justice Innovation

This project increases the effective use of intimate partner violence (IPV) risk assessments as part of coordinated responses to domestic violence homicide prevention and maintains a national online resource center.

This project provides training and technical assistance on emerging trends and best practices to to Justice for Families (JFF) grantees and court-based and court-related personnel.

The Center for Justice Innovation in collaboration with Futures Without Violence, the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), and the National Council for Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ), this project will provide training and technical assistance to court staff (including court clerks, court administrators, mediators, and guardian ad litem) across the United States seeking to improve court responses to gender-based violence.

This project provides training and technical assistance to Justice for Families grantees and Stop Violence Against Women Formula subgrantees to enhance their ability to design and deliver training programs using adult learning methodologies to court-based staff and others working within the civil justice system.

This project provides training and technical assistance for law enforcement, prosecutors, judges and court staff, and victim services providers on pre-trial release criteria and conditions of bond (COB) that address the safety of victims in cases that involve domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

This project provides training and technical assistance (TTA) to victim advocates, probation and parole, attorneys, law enforcement, prosecutors, state court judges, and court staff, on effective abuse intervention program practices. Also, this project examines existing and emerging models for promoting offender accountability in the criminal justice system.

This project builds the capacity of OVW-funded mentor courts to serve as promising practice court models for other jurisdictions, fosters peer mentorship for specialized domestic violence courts, and builds the national network of mentor courts in the domestic and sexual violence field.