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Child protective services (CPS) refers to government agencies in the United States that investigate allegations of child abuse or neglect, and if confirmed, intervene by providing services to the family through a safety plan, in-home monitoring, supervision, or if a safety plan is not feasible or in emergencies, removing the child from the custody of their parent or legal guardian.
Protective factors are the variables within an individual or their community that help promote their well-being against adversity. [27] Although Latino families are at risk of experiencing more ACEs, research suggests that Latino cultural values can be protective factors to ACEs and long-term trauma. [28]
Eventually, the Florida Network of Youth and Family Services would expand to 31 crisis agencies and community-based organizations, while adding onto its plate contract monitoring (in 2001, the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice would give it exclusive contract management responsibility for CINS/FINS), data collection, quality improvement ...
Mirna Yamileth Valladares Flores had received little to no communication from her 13-year-old daughter’s Norfolk middle school, and was frustrated. Valladares, who was a teacher in her native ...
After the child sex abuse scandal involving Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, Florida legislators in 2012 passed a law that placed a greater responsibility on ordinary people to report ...
Childhelp operates three advocacy centers in the U.S. that minimize the trauma to an abused child through condensing the investigative process by housing professionals in law enforcement, child protective services, medicine, mental health and prosecution all under one roof. The child friendly facilities provide an environment far more ...
Several employees at a Florida Department of Health clinic in Haines City have accused their employer of forbidding them from speaking Spanish at work, Bay News 9 reports. The seven employees, all ...
Key Largo (Spanish: Cayo Largo) is an island in the upper Florida Keys archipelago and is the largest section of the keys, at 33 miles (53 km) long. It is one of the northernmost of the Florida Keys in Monroe County , and the northernmost of the keys connected by U.S. Highway 1 (the Overseas Highway ).