Why Staff Fail to Report Suspected Child Abuse: Strategies to Ensure Consistent Reporting, by Alan Guttman

This session is sponsored by MyChild Daily Reports, Hot Topics for ECE Administrators Series.

This workshop addresses, head-on, the many challenges and obstacles that staff and programs encounter when implementing child abuse reporting policies and procedures. During this session, participants will learn about, discuss and develop strategies to ensure consistent, confidential, and effective reporting of suspected child abuse. Participants will also learn how to plan and implement local reporting policies and procedures, overcome obstacles to reporting, and devise strategies to support mandated reporters.

Early care and education professionals play a key role in the reporting of suspected child abuse. Learn why mandated reporters may not consistently report suspected child abuse. Explore the issues, obstacles and barriers created by local program reporting policies and procedures that may result in suspected abuse going unreported. This workshop is targeted to program directors, administrators and managers and those responsible for implementing reporting procedures. The focus "is not" on the identification of child abuse.

All sessions are 1.5 hours long, and include a brief announcement from our sponsor. 2:oo PM – 3:30 PM Eastern Time. Can’t participate in our webinars at the appointed time? Never fear! All of the webinars are recorded. To view the recording, simply register now and you will receive an email with a link to the recording when it is ready to be viewed. You can still download the certificate by watching the recording to the end when the certificate link is announced and displayed on the screen. *Please be advised that you will only be eligible for the great door prizes if you participate in the live session.

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