9 episodes

This podcast seeks to educate professionals who have legal and ethical obligations to report suspicions of child maltreatment to child protective services. This podcast explores thorny issues central to the challenging experiences of mandated reporters. For more information about mandated reporting, check out https://www.makingthetoughcall.info

Making the Tough Call Kathryn Krase

    • Science

This podcast seeks to educate professionals who have legal and ethical obligations to report suspicions of child maltreatment to child protective services. This podcast explores thorny issues central to the challenging experiences of mandated reporters. For more information about mandated reporting, check out https://www.makingthetoughcall.info

    Am I always a mandated reporter?

    Am I always a mandated reporter?

    Mandated reporters struggle with understanding when they are required to make reports to child protective services. This explores explores when mandated reporters are required to make reports to CPS, and when they might not.

    • 6 min
    Am I required to report suspicions of past child abuse?

    Am I required to report suspicions of past child abuse?

    This episode explores whether mandated reporters are required to make reports of suspected child abuse that occurred many years ago.

    • 7 min
    Do I have to report parental drug use to CPS?

    Do I have to report parental drug use to CPS?

    Concerns about the impact of parental substance use disorders on children are understandable. However, the obligation of mandated reporters to bring their concerns to the attention of child protective services (CPS) is not always so clear cut. This episode explores assumptions professionals make about parental substance use, and encourages mandated reporters to think about their concerns differently when considering if they are required to make a report to CPS.

    • 8 min
    Should Reports to CPS be Required? Maybe not...

    Should Reports to CPS be Required? Maybe not...

    This podcast explores the question whether professionals should be required to make reports to child protective services. Maybe the answer isn't as easy to discern as you might think.

    • 8 min
    Requirements for Mandated Reporter Training

    Requirements for Mandated Reporter Training

    This podcast episode explores the laws around the obligation of mandated reporters and their employers to complete training on their obligations to report suspected child maltreatment.

    • 5 min
    Unsubstantiated Reports to CPS: How Can We Prevent Them?

    Unsubstantiated Reports to CPS: How Can We Prevent Them?

    This episode explains what "unsubstantiated" reports to CPS mean, and how mandated reporters can prevent making unnecessary reports of suspected child maltreatment.

    • 7 min

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