Types of Abuse
Injuries sustained by other than accidental means.
What is Physical Abuse?
Prenatal exposure to chronic or severe use of alcohol or the unlawful use of any controlled substance which results in:
- Symptoms of withdrawal in a newborn
-the presence of a controlled substance in a newborn's body, blood, urine, or meconium that is not the result of medical treatment
What is CE4 (Prenatal abuse)?
A request received on the letter head of another state CPS agency for the county to see a family.
What is a courtesy interview?
Stronger Families for a Stronger Georgia
What is the Vision for DHS?
The majority of reports received concerns allegations of neglect.
TRUTH: 102,712 received in 2022
The failure to provide proper parental care or control, subsistence, education as required by law, or other care or control necessary for a child's physical, mental, or emotional health
What is Neglect?
The failure to provide proper education as required by law
What is N7 (Educational/Cognitive Neglect)?
The Reporter indicated that they made a report today or yesterday about the same incident and want to follow up on information they already reported
What is an I&R?
24/7/365
What are CICC's hours of operations?
Only IMM and 24's need to be notified within 2 hours.
FICTION: all cases should be notified within 2 hours
Acts or omissions by a caregiver responsible for the care of a child that cause any mental injury to such child's intellectual or psychological capacity
What is Emotional Abuse?
Injury to the child’s skeletal system.
What is P1 (Fractures, Dislocations, Sprains)?
The Reporter is calling back to ADD information or to report NEW allegations of Abuse or Neglect to a previous report that they made
What is a New Report?
Phone, email, fax, Mandated reporter website
What are the 4 ways to make a report?
It is best practice to notify the county before staffing with your supervisor to avoid missing notification.
FICTION: never notify before staffing with a supervisor (either verbally or in writing).
A caregiver employing, using, persuading, inducing, enticing, or coercing any minor who is not such person's spouse to engage in any "inappropriate" act
What is Sexual Abuse?
Punishment that includes inflicting or subjecting a child to intense physical or mental pain, suffering, or agony that is repetitive, prolonged, or severe.
What is E2 (Bizarre Punishment)?
Mom tested positive for marijuana at the birth of the baby. The child was negative with no withdrawal symptoms.
What is Plan of Safe Care (POSC)?
What is 124,737?
CLEAR, Gateway and SHINES are tools that can all be used to identify unknown information for families
TRUTH: there are several tools at our disposal to identify unknown information
An act or failure to act by a caregiver responsible for the care of a child that presents looming prospect of severe impairment to the child's physical, mental, or emotional health.
What is Imminent Risk of Serious Harm?
Any person who allows, permits, encourages, or requires a child to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing any visual or print medium
What is S9 (Sexual Exploitation)?
The child was touched inappropriately on the playground at lunch.
What is Maltreatment not in Care (MNIC)?
The amount of children served by DFCS in 2022
What is 134,348?
CICC is a fast pace, driven unit that provides a valuable service to the families of Georgia
TRUTH: employee within CICC are special, unsung heroes that are dedicated to the safety and well-being of Georgia's children.