Keystone AEA

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• Keystone AEA
• Mandatory Child Abuse Training
• Provided by
• Keystone School Social Workers
• 2002

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Time Line

• 1965
• Health Practitioners required to report
• 1974
• Mandatory reporter list expanded
• acting in the course of employment
• 1978
• Sexual Abuse and Denial of Critical Care
• 1985
• Direct reporting to DHS

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Child Abuse

• Victim under eighteen years
• Subjected to one or more categories of abuse
• Results of acts or omissions of a caretaker
• (3 Cs Child, Circumstances, Caretaker)

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Categories of Child Abuse

• Physical Abuse
• Mental Injury
• Sexual Abuse
• Denial of Critical Care
• Child Prostitution
• Presence of Illegal Drugs
• Manufacturing or Possession of a Dangerous
  Substance
• Bestiality in the Presence of a Minor

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Report Directly to DHS

• Not through
• an administrator/supervisor

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Assessment

• Process
• no longer
• investigation

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Possible Outcomes

• Not Confirmed
• Confirmed
• Founded

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Not Confirmed

• Preponderance of evidence that abuse has not
  occurred

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Confirmed

• but not placed on
• Child Abuse Registry
• (Physical/DCC when minor, isolated,
• unlikely to reoccur)

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Founded

• Confirmed placed
• on Registry
• (Most confirmed reports)

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• Services still offered to families
• even if not confirmed

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Chapter 102

• Addresses allegations of abuse of students by
  school employees
• DHS not involved
• Possible referral to law enforcement if it is
  likely a crime was committed