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2025 Union County Local Child Fatality Prevention Team Annual Report
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INFORMATION CONTACT:
Traci Colley, Human Services Agency - Public Health Department, Director, 704-296-4801 and Ashley Lanz, Department of Social Services, Director, 704-296-4380
ACTION REQUESTED:
Receive as information the 2025 Union County Local Child Fatality Prevention Team Annual Report.
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.
North Carolina Session Law (NCSL) 2023-134 enacted changes to strengthen the state's child fatality prevention system which included the establishment of a State Office of Child Fatality Prevention (CFP State Office) within the Division of Public Health (DPH), Department of Health and Human Services (the Department), made changes to the Child Fatality Prevention System, and made it mandatory to report child fatalities into the National Fatality Review Case Reporting System (NFRCRS).
The NFR-CRS is a web-based system hosted by the National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention within the Center for National Prevention Initiatives of the Michigan Public Health Institute (MPHI) and is used by many states to provide child death review teams with a data system for capturing, analyzing, and reporting of information shared at a child death or serious injury review. MPHI has a Cooperative Agreement with the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administrat...
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