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Child Fatality Prevention & Community Child Protection Team (CFPT/CCPT) Overview & 2023 Annual Reports
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INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dennis Joyner, Human Services Agency Public Health Director, 704-296-4801 & Ashley Lantz, Human Services Agency Social Services Director, 704-296-4380
ACTION REQUESTED:
Receive as information an overview of the Child Fatality Prevention & Community Child Protection Team (CFPT/CCPT) process and the 2023 Annual Reports
BACKGROUND:
The NC Child Fatality Prevention System is a statewide multi-disciplinary, multiagency system that was developed in the 1990's consisting of the North Carolina Child Fatality Prevention Team, North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force, and the Local Child Fatality Prevention Team (CFPT) and Community Child Protection Team (CCPT). N.C. G.S. 7B Article 14 defines the duties and membership composition of CCPTs and CFPTs which are statutorily required to represent various human services and public service disciplines in the community such as law enforcement, mental health, school system, health care, etc.
The purpose of the local CFPT is to review Union County child fatalities, assess potential gaps in systems and policies that may have contributed to the deaths, and make recommendations to policy makers to improve local and statewide systems to better protect children and prevent future deaths.
Community Child Protection Teams (CCPT) were established to review selected active cases of child abuse/neglect and cases in which a child died as result of suspected abuse/neglect. The purpose of the local CCPT is to improve the social services/child protective services system and other community systems that protect children from abuse and neglect.
In Union County, the local CFPT and the local CCPT are a combined team which meets quarterly and is co-chaired by the Social Services Director and Public Health Director. The CFPT/CCPT team submits reports annually to the State. These reports must also be revie...
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