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SECTION III: SAFETY Trends in Child Safety Child safety is a paramount concern for the Nevada child welfare system. The most frequent types of child abuse or neglect allegations reported for the period of July 1, 2009 through present highlight that Negligent Treatment (53.8%) and Physical Injury Abuse or Neglect (33.7%) are the most prevalent allegation types that children experience in the child welfare system. To a lesser degree children experience Sexual Abuse or Sexual Abuse Neglect (8.2%), Substance Exposed Infants (3%), and Mental Injury Abuse or Neglect (1.1%). Figure 03 shows the breakdown of allegations reported by child welfare agencies over the past year. Figure 03: Allegations Reported in State Fiscal Year 2010 Allegations Reported in SFY 2010 3500 3000 Number of Allegations 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 Clark County Washoe County Rurals Statewide Negligent Treatment 1769 891 415 3075 Physical Injury Abuse & Neglect 1486 321 119 1926 Mental Injury Abuse & Neglect 26 33 8 67 Sexual Abuse & Neglect 445 15 12 472 Sustance Exposure Infant 156 12 6 174 Source: UNITY Report CFS727 July 1, 2009 to April 30, 2010 Initiatives A variety of initiatives have been reported by Clark County in their efforts to improve child safety. The Emergency Response Team in Clark County was implemented subsequent to the previous CFSR; however in the past year CCDFS has expanded work hours to 24 hours per day, 7 days per week and has recently implemented an emergency response team checklist. Law enforcement admissions have been tracked and monitored for children age five and under and for children above the age of five. The child fatality team has an on-call shift for 24 hour response to all fatalities reported. Investigative teams have been implemented in all geographical areas that specialize in response to children age five and under. There have also been several updates to law enforcement regarding CCDFS practice and initiatives. One of the Nevada APSR – SFY 2010 Page 14 of 108
particular strengths that CCDFS is experiencing this year is that removals with a return home in less than eight days continue to decline, with a reduction in the incidence rate of 13% to 9% in the last year. Some of the challenges that CCDFS reports are that there are a lack of voluntary in-home services to families due to lack of funding and community resources. In addition, the judicial system often forces a family through the court system and the District Attorney’s often disagree with the recommendations of the Department. Program Areas Reports and Investigations A referral becomes a report upon child welfare agency determination that information received constitutes an allegation consistent with Nevada child abuse and neglect allegation definition. Reports are then forwarded to a supervisor or supervisory-level designee for review and a priority response time is assigned. The following graph depicts the number of new reports from July 2009 through April 2010 and shows a steady increase in new reports in all months except October, November and December 2009. Figure 04 shows that a total of 14,949 new reports that have come in statewide since June 2009. Figure 04: Number of New Reports Number of New Reports 2,000 1,800 1,600 Number of New Reports 1,400 1,200 1,000 800 600 400 200 0 JUL '09 AUG '09 SEP '09 OCT '09 NOV '09 DEC '09 JAN '10 FEB '10 MAR '10 APR '10 CCDFS 567 574 708 741 634 523 603 740 892 903 WCDSS 478 475 620 551 498 500 583 532 654 264 DCFS RURAL 274 243 309 278 248 231 311 254 261 500 STATEWIDE TOTAL 1,319 1,292 1,637 1,570 1,380 1,254 1,497 1,526 1,807 1,667 Source: CFS769 SFY2010 July 1, 2009 to April 30, 2010 When a report is screened in, it is assigned for investigation by a child welfare agency per policy 0506 Intake and Priority Response. The investigation process is outlined in the 0509 Nevada initial Assessment (NIA) Policy and includes interaction with a family for the purpose of assessing factors or conditions that are known to contribute to the likelihood of child abuse or neglect; to determine the strengths and/or protective capacities that can help mitigate risk and safety threats; to reconcile information contained in the Intake reports about alleged child abuse and neglect and alleged threats Nevada APSR – SFY 2010 Page 15 of 108
Page 1 and 2: STATE OF NEVADA Department of Healt
Page 3 and 4: SECTION V: CHILD AND FAMILY WELL-BE
Page 5 and 6: SECTION I: INTRODUCTION Nevada Demo
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Page 9 and 10: District provides services to Carso
Page 11 and 12: Legislative Activities Nevada’s l
Page 13: 4. Review and Improvement of Existi
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Page 19 and 20: In addition, WCDSS individually con
Page 21 and 22: Table 08: CFSR Data Profile Informa
Page 23 and 24: Relatives who care for their kin ty
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Page 27 and 28: CFSP Goals and Objectives for Perma
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Page 31 and 32: Figure 11: Average Months to Adopti
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Page 39 and 40: Agency Level Policies: In addition
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community assets to make significan
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to provide safe, quality care to ab
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meeting occurred on December 2, 200
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• SAPTA (Substance Abuse Preventi
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as well as foster parents, are trai
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programs: $244,633 was allocated to
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Overall the DR program has been wel
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development of the brain for Indian
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IV-E or IV-B funds, including IV-E
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Item 45: State use of cross-jurisdi
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Figure 19: ICPC Number of Incoming
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APPENDIX A: Child Abuse Prevention
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Substantive Changes There are no su
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1) Child Protective Service (CPS) p
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designated to be the Chafee recipie
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Presented NYTD to two annual Youth
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Specialist by telephone, mail, or e
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APPENDIX D: Health Care Services Pl
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ATTACHMENT A: Citizen Review Panel
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TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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During 2009, the Statewide Panel’
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with regular and ongoing updates of
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Additionally, DCFS Policy 0511.0, R
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Visitation Recommendation 4: Statew
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UNITY Data System Changes Recommend
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about referrals and services. To ad
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Results of the study identified sev
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Meeting Dates and Activities During
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The Division of Child and Family Se
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amount in the future. Therefore, it
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Establishes a Legislative Committee
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Emergency shelter for a child. The
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APPENDIX C: PANEL MEMBERS Statewide
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Southern CAC Members Member Affilia
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Division will be collaborating with
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• UNITY’S positioning as a case
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SAFF SB SWA TALCIT TANF TPR UNITY U
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B. Children’s Justice Act Task Fo
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ATTACHMENT D: Assurances and Certif
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