Child protection

OJJDP’s National Training and Technical Assistance Center serves as the principal coordinator, broker, and facilitator for all of OJJDP’s training and technical assistance resources and services.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children® is enhancing existing programs of work with additional staff and creating new programs of work to address gaps in the fight against child sex trafficking in the United States.

Through this program, the National Children's Alliance will increase the number of children advocacy center programs serving child victims of abuse, with an emphasis on reaching underserved areas (rural, remote, and Tribal) and populations (American Indian, Alaska Native, and Hispanic communities, and military families).

Under this project, the National Children's Advocacy Center provides training opportunities, technical assistance, publications, and resources for child abuse response professionals.

The Institute for Intergovernmental Research provides technical assistance to Opioid Affected Youth Initiative grantees as they develop and implement effective, data-driven, and coordinated responses that address the abuse of opioids and other substances.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children® provides virtual learning, in-person training, case support, publications, community engagement, and prevention education programs.

Through this program, NCA will increase the number of children's advocacy center programs serving child/youth victims of sex trafficking and child pornography, with an emphasis on those involved in federal cases through our memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the FBI.

The Western Regional Children’s Advocacy Center will provide training and technical assistance and web-based resources to develop and strengthen children’s advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams in the 13 states of the region.

The Midwest Regional Children's Advocacy Center's mission is to improve the community response to child abuse through strategic leadership, collaboration, and capacity building.

This program provides training and technical assistance using evidence-based practices used to address youth violence and victimization, violence reduction, delinquency prevention, and accountability.