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In 2005, the Child Fatality Prevention Act established the Child Fatality Prevention System (CFPS), a statewide, multidisciplinary, multi-agency effort to prevent child deaths. Child fatality reviews serve to understand child deaths in order to prevent the injury and death of other children in the future.
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This document is intended to serve as a guide for facilitating Child Fatality Review. Because each local team will develop a unique structure, it is understood that this guidance may not be the best model for all teams. As such, teams are welcome to adapt from this model to accommodate the needs of their individual team.
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As the numbers of kinship families rise, it becomes increasingly important for all members of the judicial sector to have a thorough understanding of the benefits and unique challenges of kinship placement. The purpose of this Guide is to provide the background information and tools to help judges, attorneys, CASAs, and others ask the right questions regarding kinship care and uncover the facts necessary to make the best decisions for a child's...
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To assure that stakeholders in the child welfare system have an understanding of the perspectives, motivations, culture and ethical considerations and the roles and responsibilities of other stakeholders within the child welfare system in order to gain an appreciation of the roles of others so that they may create respect for individuals, promote productive relationships, and maximize system capacity to assure safety, permanency and well being for...
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To assure that stakeholders in the child welfare system have an appreciation of the vital importance of collaboration with other stakeholder groups/organizations in order to assure the safety, permanency and well being of children and the provision of due process to families who are participants in the dependency and neglect court and agency process.