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HLED 305
Child Abuse PowerPoint
Child Abuse
What is a teacher’s role?
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Child Abuse and Neglect: A Prevention and Reporting Guide
Child Abuse: Michigan
- Child means a person under 18 years of age
- Harm or threatened harm to a child’s health or welfare
- By a parent, legal guardian, or any other person responsible for the child’s health or welfare
- Or by a teacher or teacher’s aide
- That occurs through non-accidental physical or mental injury; sexual abuse; sexual exploitation; or maltreatment
Michigan School Code
- Bans Corporal Punishment
- Deliberate infliction of physical pain
- Hitting, paddling, spanking, slapping
- Or any other means of physical force used as a means of discipline
- Employees, volunteers, contractors
- Shall not inflict or cause to be inflicted
- Corporal punishment
- Upon any student under any circumstances
Child Abuse: Michigan Definitions
- Physical Abuse:
- Physical harm: any physical injury
- Serious physical harm: not necessarily permanent, but
substantial bodily disfigurement or seriously impairs function of body
organ or limb
- Sexual Abuse:
- Engaging in sexual contact or sexual penetration with a child
- Neglect:
- Willfull failure to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter or medical care
- Emotional Abuse:
- not necessarily permanent
- visible manifestations of a substantial disorder of thought or mood
- significantly impairs judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize reality, or ability to cope with ordinary demands of life
What type of abuse is more common?
Who Must Report in Michigan?
- School administrators
- School counselors
- School teachers
- Regulated child care providers
- Physicians
- Coroners
- Dentists
- Registered dental hygienists
- Nurses
- Licensed emergency care providers
- Audiologists
- Psychologists
- Marriage/family therapists
- Licensed professional counselors
- Certified social workers
- Social workers
- Social work technicians
- Law enforcement officers
When Do You Have to Report in MI?
- Have reasonable cause to suspect child abuse or neglect
- Pregnancy of a child less than 12 years of age
- Presence of a venereal disease in a child who is over 1 month of age but less than 12 years of age
- Reasonable cause
- If you have reason to suspect you must report
- even if you do not believe
- Suspicion or apprehension is enough to trigger a report
- Don’t investigate alleged abuse
Federal law requires confidentiality
- of reports of suspected abuse
- records of abuse investigations
When a child reports abuse
- listen, but do not act visibly shocked or disbelieving
- don’t challenge the child’s statement
- tell the child it is not his/her fault
- thank the child for their courage
- tell the child you must report this to get them help
MI Procedures for Mandatory Reporters
- immediately make oral report
- Telephone State of MI Department of Human Services
- Centralized Intake starting 3/5/2012
- Within 72 hours after making oral report
- file written report
- Centralized Intake for Abuse and Neglect
- Notify the person in charge of the school of the finding and that the report has been made
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