The North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention was established in July 2000 as the first cabinet-level agency to focus on juvenile justice issues and at-risk youth in the state. DJJDP works to provide the state of North Carolina with a comprehensive strategy that helps prevent and reduce juvenile crime and delinquency. This strategy focuses to strengthen families, promote delinquency prevention, support core social institutions, intervene immediately and effectively when delinquent behavior occurs, and identify and control the small group of serious, violent, and chronic juvenile offenders in the local communities.

The North Carolina Child Advocacy Institute was founded in 1983 and has been the leading state-level organization consistently and persistently engaged in the struggle to win just and equitable treatment for a large group of non-voting, non-taxpaying, non-wealthy, non-powerful, non-organized North Carolinians – i.e., children and youth.