Sentences with phrase «with substantiated abuse»

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In the Dricoll / Mars Hill situation, a desired outcome would be a greater awareness of the level of transparency and care that is required of pastors and the mechanisms needed when there are repeated, substantiated reports of pastoral abuse with failed systems of accountability.

According to the John Jay report, 918 of 1872 (49 %) substantiated allegations of abuse against Catholic clergy were addressed by sending the priest off for psychiatric counseling and then moving him to another parish, with nary a whisper to law enforcement.

The center said six of the cases have been closed: four after finding abuse or neglect, and two others with allegations not substantiated.

BUILD Illinois played a key role in developing a process for implementing an early intervention screening and referral system for intact families with children from birth to age three with substantiated cases of abuse in neglect.

In 2006, Contra Costa County CFS received over 10,000 referrals for abuse and neglect with approximately 17 percent of the cases substantiated.

Conclusions Although findings are at best mixed with respect to the effectiveness of home - visiting programs in preventing child neglect, evidence is mounting that these programs can positively alter parenting practices and, to a lesser extent, children's cognitive development.121 Given the many measurement problems associated with accurately tracking substantiated cases of abuse and neglect, what is needed is not more evaluations of CPS reports attempting to show reductions in child abuse and neglect, but rather the development of new measures by which researchers can make sensitive and accurate assessments of child maltreatment.

In the Family Interactions program, parenting experts work with families whose children have been removed from their homes due to substantiated reports of abuse or neglect.

The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses, tested with a primarily white sample, produced a 48 percent treatment - control difference in the overall rates of substantiated rates of child abuse and neglect (irrespective of risk) and an 80 percent difference for families in which the mothers were low - income and unmarried at registration.21 Corresponding rates of child maltreatment were too low to serve as a viable outcome in a subsequent trial of the program in a large sample of urban African - Americans, 20 but program effects on children's health - care encounters for serious injuries and ingestions at child age 2 and reductions in childhood mortality from preventable causes at child age 9 were consistent with the prevention of abuse and neglect.20, 22

Five programs showed favorable effects in some aspect of child maltreatment reduction: (1) Child FIRST showed a favorable effect on family involvement with child protective services53; (2) Early Start on 2 measures, including the percentage who went to the hospital for accident, injury, or accidental poisoning, and parents» report of severe or very severe physical assault25, 26; (3) EHS had a favorable effect on physical punishment at 36 months66; (4) HFA showed 14 favorable impacts on measures of parenting behaviors, such as corporal punishment, self - reported serious physical abuse, and aggression, 30,50,67 — 69 and 1 measure of the biological mother as a confirmed subject of sexual abuse report by the child's seventh birthday50; and (5) NFP had favorable effects on 7 measures, including health care encounters for injuries or ingestions and substantiated abuse or neglect 15 years after program enrollment.34, 35,42,70,71 One program, Healthy Steps, showed no effect on 1 measure in this domain.65

The following resources address strategies for working with families with a substantiated case of child abuse or neglect to increase child safety and prevent repeat maltreatment.

Where a substantiated finding of abuse, neglect or abandonment exists the court may craft a parenting plan consistent with code sections pertaining to such findings and consistent with the child's best interest.

Dauphin County alone received 224 of these reports, and in measuring the rate of child abuse reports, ranks the ninth in the state with 3.8 reports substantiated for every 1,000 children.