The French National Academy for Youth Protection and Juvenile Justice (in French, ENPJJ) ensures training of professionals in charge of juvenile justice, legal training and continuing education of the PJJ’s public service agents, and multi-institutional courses, opened to professionals from other institutions related to child protection.

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The French National Academy for Youth Protection and Juvenile Justice (in French, ENPJJ) is a department of the Directorate for Youth Protection and Juvenile Justice (DPJJ) within the French Ministry of Justice.

The ENPJJ has developed a wide expertise in social work, and provides training for people working among the juvenile justice system. It ensures training of professionals in charge of juvenile justice, legal training and continuing education of the PJJ’s public service agents, and multi-institutional courses, opened to professionals from other institutions related to child protection.

The ENPJJ is part of the French Public Service Schools Network, and has developed numerous partnerships with other schools. It develops research, documentation, and publication activities, based on professional practices in the field of vulnerable childhood and adolescence.

The ENPJJ has its headquarters in Roubaix, in the north of France. It has also nine others territorial training centers (PTF, in French) nationwide, as well as two sites overseas (Antilles- Guyana and Réunion-Mayotte).

Under the supervision of an executive board of directors, three departments support the work of the ENPJJ and contribute to its success:

• a General Secretariat responsible for the management of the academy (SG)
• an Academic  Department (SF)
• a Research and Library Department (SRD)

The school has developed its expertise in the area of childhood in danger, and juvenile criminal justice thanks to:

• its multidisciplinary research approach in domains such as education, sociology, history, psychology, law and criminology, which feeds into the training courses;
• the depth of its academic resources. The ENPJJ’s media and research libraries, specialized in childhood in danger and juvenile delinquency, contain nearly 80000 books, and more than 800 press headlines. The ongoing digitization work enables the back-up of important historical archives within the digital library, Adolie;
• the quality of its publications. The ENPJJ ensures the publication of a professional journal, «Les Cahiers Dynamiques» (The Dynamic Notebooks), and two scientific journals, «Sociétés et jeunesses en difficulté» (Troubled Youths and Societies), and «Revue d’histoire de l’enfance irrégulière» (Historic Review of Troubled Childhood). Those journals help to develop the thinking of workers who accompany troubled young people. Publishing promotes broadcast of knowledge, feedbacks, and experience sharing;
• the historical perspective from its own museum in Savigny-sur-Orge, dedicated to juvenile justice through History, 19th & 20th centuries.

All these activities aim to support the professionalization of the staff, and contribute to develop a common core of knowledge and skills, at the service of child protection.