34 U.S.C. § 20333 — Specialized technical assistance and training programs

(a) Grants to build model programs. (1) The Administrator must give grants to national organizations to develop one or more model technical assistance and training programs, aimed at improving how the court system handles child abuse and neglect cases. (2) The organization getting this grant must have broad membership among juvenile and family court judges and proven experience training judges, attorneys, child welfare staff, and lay child advocates. (b) Grants directly to courts. (1) The Administrator must give grants to state courts or judicial administrators for programs that provide, or pay for, (A) training and technical assistance for judicial staff and attorneys in juvenile and family courts, and (B) administrative reform in those courts. (2) When judging these grants, priority goes to programs that improve: (A) how courts decide whether child service agencies made reasonable efforts to prevent foster care placement; (B) how courts decide whether agencies made reasonable efforts to reunite families after foster placement; (C) how information and services are coordinated among health professionals, social workers, law enforcement, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and court personnel, consistent with subchapter I; and (D) how courts respond to children vulnerable to human trafficking, where a good screening tool exists. (c) Grant criteria. The Administrator must award grants under subsections (a) and (b) consistent with sections 11172, 11183, and 11186 of this title.