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Confirm Single County Child Fatality Prevention/Community Child Protection Team (CFPT/CCPT)
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INFORMATION CONTACT:
Janet Payne, Consolidated Human Services Agency Director, 704-296-4348
ACTION REQUESTED:
Confirm designation of CFPT/CCPT as a single county team.
PRIOR BOARD ACTIONS:
None.
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.
CCPTs 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.
Changes to the law via the 2023 Appropriations Act [Section 9H.15. of Session Law 2023-134] now requires all Boards of County Commissioners to determine if the local team proceeds as a single or multi-county team. In Union County, the local CFPT and local CCPT has operated for years as a single county combined team which meets quarterly and is co-chaired by the Social Services Director and Public Health Director.
Union County would like to conti...
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