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Creating a Child & Family Well-Being System: A Paradigm Shift from Mandated Reporting to Community Supporting from Safe and Sound

Natalie Audage 9/20/2210:18 AM

The proposed paradigm shift from mandated reporting to community supporting is not a new idea, but one that has been proposed and championed by advocates, social workers, researchers, philanthropists, pediatricians, educators, and others across the country who have been informed by deep listening to families with lived expertise in the child welfare system. Creating a Child & Family Well-Being System: A Paradigm Shift from Mandated Reporting to Community Supporting from Safe and Sound offers action steps in five categories:

Embrace a new frame,
Advance legal and legislative reforms
Implement policy and practice reforms
Increase access to supports and services
Engage communities, tribes, and other stakeholders to guide reform

Read the brief at Creating a Child & Family Well-Being System: A Paradigm Shift from Mandated Reporting to Community Supporting

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