Meeting Date: December 2, 2024
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Designation of Child Fatality Prevention Team/Community Child Protection Team (CFPT/CCPT), Future Local Team, as a Single County Team
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Summary:
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The NC Child Fatality Prevention System is a statewide multi-disciplinary system that was developed in the 1990’s consisting of the North Carolina Child Fatality Prevention Team, North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force and local teams (CFPTs and CCPTs).
N.C.G.S. 7B Article 14 defines the membership composition of CCPTs and CFPTs, statutorily required to represent disciplines among the community, as well as the responsibilities and duties of the local CFPT to review resident county child fatalities, assess potential gaps in systems and policies that may have contributed to the deaths, and make recommendations to policy makers to improve local and statewide systems to better protect children and prevent future deaths.
Passed in 2023, changes to the law via the 2023 Appropriations Act [Section 9H.15 of Session Law 2023-124] now required all Boards of County Commissioners to determine if the local team proceeds as a single or multicounty team. Rutherford County would like to continue as a single county team and requests the BOCCs confirmation of this operational model.
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Budget:
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Contact Information:
Delores Hunt, Director of Department of Social Services
delores.hunt@rutherfordcountync.gov <mailto:delores.hunt@rutherfordcountync.gov>
828-287-6171
Recommended Motion:
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Confirm designation of Child Fatality Prevention Team/Community Child Protection Team (CFPT/CCPT), Future Local Team, as a single county team