Tag: adverse childhood experiences
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Colorado task force recommends sweeping changes to child abuse reporting laws
Colorado’s mandatory reporting laws for child abuse and neglect disproportionately impact communities of color and the disabled, and state law should specify that mandatory reporters should not make a report to child-protective services based on a parent’s indigence or socioeconomic status or a child’s disability, according to a legislative task force. The 34-member task force,…
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El Paso County child abuse case: Children placed in home with a man with violent past
After child sexual abuse allegations against a father surfaced, El Paso County child protective services officials placed two children back with their estranged mother, who was living with a boyfriend with a violent past. Another child eventually ended up with an aunt, who was living with a registered sex offender. In their mother’s home, one…