SECTION III

Protecting Our Children

The system the nation has developed to respond to child abuse and neglect is failing. It is not a question of acute failure of a single element of the system; there is a chronic and critical multiple organ failure.

U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect - 1990

Section III: Protecting Our Children:

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Chapter 6: The Child Protection System
- A Brief Overview of the Massachusetts System
- Conventional Child Protective Services
Chapter 7: Multi-Tracking: A Differential Response System
- Missouri's Dual-Track Approach
- The Feceral Mandate: The Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA)
- Proposal for a Multi-Track System for Massachusetts
- RECOMMENDATIONS
Chapter 8: Multidisciplinary Assessment: The Core of Effective Practice
- Child Protection Teams of Florida
- Massachusetts Teams
- Sexual Abuse Investigative Network Teams (SAIN Teams)
- Children's Advocacy Centers (CACs)
- Hospital-based Child Protection Teams (CPTs)
- Multidisciplinary Assessment Teams
- Multidisciplinary Assessments and the Courts
- RECOMMENDATIONS
Chapter 9: Workforce and Workload: The Foundation of Quality Child Protection
- Workforce and Workload
- Salaries and Staff Turnover
- Caseloads
- Education, Recruitment and Training
- Child Protective Services Training Institute
- Licensing of Social Workers
- RECOMMENDATIONS
Chapter 10: Abused and Neglected Children in Foster Care
- Multiple Placements
- Foster Home Supply
- Children Transitioning Out of Foster Care
- Timeliness of Placements
- RECOMMENDATIONS
Chapter 11: Abused and Neglected Children and Adoption
- RECOMMENDATIONS
Chapter 12: Accountability in the Child Protection System
- Citizen Review Panels
- Professional Advisory Committee
- Child Death Review Teams
- RECOMMENDATIONS
Chapter 13: Abused/Neglected Children and the Courts
- Information Sharing Among Courts
- Reporting of Child Abuse Allegations by the Courts
- Guardians Ad Litem
- Assessment Teams and the Courts
- Court-Friendly Practices for Child Victim Witnesses
- Judicial Training in Child Protection
- Jeremy and Isaac
- RECOMMENDATIONS