Agenda - 01-21-2025 ; 6-c - New Legislation for Local Community Child Protection Team (CCPT) Child Fatality Prevention Team (CFPT)

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2 • District court judge • County medical examiner • Representative of a local childcare facility or Head Start program • Parent of a child who died before reaching the child's eighteenth birthday Prior to the new legislation, the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) could appoint up to five (5) additional members from the community to serve on the team. From 2018 until present day, there is no record indicating any additional team member appointments from the BOCC. The current team roster is attached. The team currently has 4 vacant positions from the required list. Team Chair Shannon Barnes has sent out invitations for the attorney position, executive director of local community action agency and district court judge. The team continues to recruit for a parent representative. As of January 2025, the additional BOCC-appointed positions are to be replaced by up to five (5) individuals that the Local Team Chair can invite to serve as ad hoc members for a specific child fatality review to enhance the effectiveness of the review. The legislation makes the following changes to required reviews: • Local Teams are no longer required to do active child protective services case reviews (formally a CCPT objective), but may elect to do such reviews at the request of the Director of the county department of social services. • Local Teams are no longer required to review every death of a resident child. Instead, Local Teams shall review all deaths of resident children under age 18 that fall into one of the following categories below (and may elect to review additional deaths that fall outside these categories). 1. Undetermined causes 2. Unintentional injury 3. Violence 4. Motor vehicle incidents 5. Sudden unexpected infant death 6. Suicide 7. Deaths not expected in the next six months* 8. Deaths related to child maltreatment or child deaths involving a child or child's family who was reported to or known to child protective services* 9. A subset of additional infant deaths that fall outside of the above categories, according to guidelines set by NCDHHS* *Criteria and guidelines will be established by NCDHHS to further define these categories. The new legislation also requires local teams to prepare to participate in the National Fatality Review - Case Reporting System (NFR-CRS). • Local Teams are legislatively required to begin using the NFR-CRS on July 1, 2025. • Appropriate data use agreements are being developed and will have to be in place prior to implementation. • The Office of Child Fatality Prevention will provide training to Local Teams on the use of the NFR-CRS prior to July 2025. • The Office of Child Fatality Prevention will also provide guidance and ongoing technical assistance related to use of the NFR-CRS. • Once enough data is collected in the NRF-CRS, the Office of Child Fatality Prevention will analyze and report on aggregate data from the NFR-CRS.