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The Children’s Commission is offering scholarships for Texas judges to attend the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) 2025 National Conference on Juvenile Justice on March 16-19, 2025 in Boston, Massachusetts and the NCJFCJ 88th Annual Conference on July 20-23, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Up to 15 total scholarships are available and judges can indicate their preference to attend one or both conferences in their application. More information about the conferences and NCJFCJ membership is available on the NCJFCJ website.
To be eligible for a scholarship, applicants must handle civil child welfare cases. Preference will be given to judges who have larger percentages of their docket dedicated to child welfare cases. The scholarship will take the form of reimbursed registration fees and allowable conference-related expenses, such as travel, lodging, and meals, up to $2,000 total per conference. Any additional expenses must be covered by the scholarship recipient.
All applicants must agree to complete a post-event survey from the Children’s Commission. For more information about the scholarship and to submit an application, please visit the Scholarships webpage.
Please note, the application period for these scholarship opportunities will close at midnight on Friday, January 3, 2025. The Children’s Commission will notify all applicants of the status of their scholarship application by Tuesday, January 7, 2025.
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