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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: May 8, 2002 Action Agen}'a Nam No. �2 SUBJECT: Child Fatality Preventlon Team Presentation/Community Child Protection Team Presentation DEPARTMENT: Health &Social Services PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Rosemary Summers, ext. 2411 Annual Reports Nancy Coston ell. 2802 List of CFPT& CCPT Members TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsterough 7324181 Chapel Hill 961 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336.227.2031 PURPOSE: To hear a presentation from each team on child protection services and child fatalities in the County. BACKGROUND: Or Dana Leinenweber and Ms. Joyce Moore, members of the joint Orange County Child Fatality Prevention Team (CFPTpCommunity ChIO Protection Team (CCPT)will present information to the Commissioners as required by General Statute 78-1406 of the North Carolina Juvenile Code. This General Statute establishes a Community Child Protection and Child Fatality Prevention Team in each county across North Carolina. The Community Child Protection Team's mandate is in part to review selected active cases in which children are being served by child protective vertices, and the Child Fatality Prevention Team's charge is to review the records of ell child fatalities in the County. The required members of these teams are Crewe from social services, health department, Guardian ad Litem, metliwl examiner's office, law enforcement, and others. Orange County funcdona with a merged team since the required members overlap to a great extent. The joint Team meets bimonthly and reviews all child deems and chill protection cases. This presentation covers fiscal year 2002 to date. The attached report has some of the finings and recommendations of each of the teams. FINANCIAL IMPACT: None, RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommence that the Board hear the presentation.