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TRAININGS AVAILABLE
Mandated reporter—Are you a mandated reporter?
Penal Code 11165.7 currently specifies 35 categories as mandated child abuse reporters. Review this Penal code online: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/.
Why you must report:
- Because it is the law
- To protect the child and to provide help for the parents
Know your responsibility as a mandated reporter:
- Learn to whom you must report...
- What, When & How to Report...
- Safeguards for Reporters...
- Types and symptoms of Child Abuse
Reporters are immune from criminal liability for reporting as required, but failure to report can result in up to 6 months in jail and/or $1,000 fine.
Training time from 30 minutes to 3 hours.
Safe from the Start Training
Learn the effects of violence on young children. The brain develops in a use-dependent way, therefore children exposed to violence may have impacts on their brain development.
- Learn how the brain develops
- Effects of violence on young children
- What you can do to help
- Techniques to help children exposed to violence
Training time from 30 minutes to 3 hours.
Educational Material Available:
Home Safety assessment checklist, Poison Control information, Drowning prevention, Parenting tips, Safe Baby Surrender Law, Child Abuse Prevention and Local Resource Information, Fetal Alcohol and Shaken Baby Prevention.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Assist with child abuse prevention month activities, via resource tables, blue ribbon campaign, presentations.
- Conference planner for annual conference held each April.
- Public Awareness coordinator, develop psa's, billboards, bus posters, brochures and schedule trainings.
- Help with Kases for Kids program, collect new or used suitcases for children entering foster care or relative placement.
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Training, Education & Volunteer Opportunities
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Home
Child Abuse Prevention Council of Butte County
P.O. Box 569 • Chico, CA 95927
Phone: (530) 342-3100
Fax: (530) 342-3995
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