Planning for safe care or widening the net?: A review and analysis of 51 states’ CAPTA policies addressing substance-exposed infants

Margaret H. Lloyd, Stephanie Luczak and Samantha Lew

Children and Youth Services Review, 2019, vol. 99, issue C, 343-354

Abstract: The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 (CARA) amended the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act Reauthorization of 2010 (CAPTA) to include mandates that states’ child protection systems implement policy for identification and safety planning in cases of prenatal substance exposure (“State Plans”). These amendments have implications for hospital, child welfare, and early intervention systems. However, no accounting of states’ CAPTA/CARA State Plans exists in the literature. The purpose of this study was to analyze State Plans for consistency with the federal legislation and document common types of inconsistencies.

Keywords: Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act Reauthorization; Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act; Policy analysis; Prenatal substance exposure; Child protective services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.01.042

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