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CHILD FATALITY REVIEW TEAMS: A MULTI-AGENCY APPROACH

NCJ Number
146850
Date Published
1994
Length
165 pages
Annotation
This is a participant guide to the National Training Teleconference on Child Fatality Review Teams, held February 16-17, 1994.
Abstract
This volume opens with the teleconference agenda and a list of presenters, with biographical sketches. There are presentation outlines, including: (1) purpose child fatality review teams; (2) effective multi-agency team approach; (3) organizational issues for local child fatality teams; (4) confidentiality issues; and (5) components (law enforcement, social services, emergency medical services, pediatric, pathology, prosecution, public health, mental health). There is a section describing the M/CAP Project. There are seven appendixes: (1) National Map of Child Fatality Review Teams; (2) State and Federal Contact Lists; (3) National and State Resources for Information and Training; (4) Child Fatalities and Child Fatality Review Teams; (5) Organizing A Multi-Agency Child Death Review Team; (6) Sample State Information; and (7) Selected Articles.