National Judicial Education Criminal Justice Improvement Project

The National Judicial College (NJC) will utilize the grant funds to improve the functioning of the criminal justice system through education and technical assistance for judges and other court service professionals. NJC will: (1) increase the cadre of faculty available to deliver high quality judicial education through a process of faculty development. NJC will plan and conduct a four-day intensive practice-based faculty development workshop, and implement a faculty development mentoring process; (2) conduct needs assessment and curriculum development through a process to include national expert focus groups, ongoing collaboration with allied organizations and BJA, and continuous course evaluation to ensure that national education opportunities are targeted to address the most current and emergent needs of the judiciary; (3) conduct outcome evaluations 4 to 8 months after a judge attends a course, to attempt to obtain data on the impact of the course on the judge's skills and abilities, as well as the impact on the justice system; (4) provide office-based technical assistance to judges and court service professionals on topics related to the improvement of the criminal justice system; (5) provide national, state and/or regional judicial education programs in collaboration with BJA and state judicial education entities; (6) provide financial assistance to judges for continuing judicial education at NJC courses and; (7) evaluate all project training and technical assistance and report the data to BJA.

NCA/NCF

The National Judicial College (NJC) will utilize the grant funds to improve the functioning of the criminal justice system through education and technical assistance for judges and other court service professionals. NJC will: (1) increase the cadre of faculty available to deliver high quality judicial education through a process of faculty development. NJC will plan and conduct a four-day intensive practice-based faculty development workshop, and implement a faculty development mentoring process; (2) conduct needs assessment and curriculum development through a process to include national expert focus groups, ongoing collaboration with allied organizations and BJA, and continuous course evaluation to ensure that national education opportunities are targeted to address the most current and emergent needs of the judiciary; (3) conduct outcome evaluations 4 to 8 months after a judge attends a course, to attempt to obtain data on the impact of the course on the judge's skills and abilities, as well as the impact on the justice system; (4) provide office-based technical assistance to judges and court service professionals on topics related to the improvement of the criminal justice system; (5) provide national, state and/or regional judicial education programs in collaboration with BJA and state judicial education entities; (6) provide financial assistance to judges for continuing judicial education at NJC courses and; (7) evaluate all project training and technical assistance and report the data to BJA.

NCA/NCF