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Attention all Californians! Child death review teams dysfunctional; new bill can fix that

Jeoffry Gordon · 5/26/221:31 PM

While most of our attention here is focused on assisting maltreated children and their families or adults suffering from the residual of their childhood trauma, I have been working at the other (tragic) end of the spectrum of child deaths due to abuse and neglect (in bureaucratic language "critical incidents.") For three years I have been a volunteer member of the CAPTA mandated Citizens Review Panel under the Department of Social Services' (DSS) Office of Child Abuse Prevention. It has...

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Attention all Californians! Child death review teams dysfunctional; new bill can fix that

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