Sec. 4. National clearinghouse for information relating to child abuse
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Section 103 of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act ( 42 U.S.C. 5104 ) is amended— in subsection (b)— in paragraph (3), by striking relating to differential response; and inserting “relating to— differential response; and the use of alternative pathways that connect families experiencing difficulty meeting basic needs or other risk factors associated with child abuse and neglect, such as parental stress, family violence, and isolation, to community-based systems and programs that strengthen families seeking support instead of to the child protection system, such as— State, Tribal, or local helplines that provide information or assistance and connect families to voluntary community-based support services; and alternative pathways for mandated reporters and other concerned adults to use to refer families for voluntary supports outside of the child protection system; ; in paragraph
(8), by striking subparagraph
(B)and inserting the following: appropriate State, Tribal, and local officials to assist in training law enforcement, legal, judicial, medical, physical, behavioral, and mental health, education, child welfare, substance use disorder treatment services, and domestic violence services personnel, including training on— the role of the child protective services system to identify children at risk of serious harm; and how to direct families in need to alternative pathways to community-based systems and programs that strengthen such families in order to safely reduce the number of families unnecessarily referred to child protective services; and ; and in paragraph (9), by inserting for both victims and for people who use violence before the period; and in subsection (c)(1)(C)— in clause (iii), by striking ; and and inserting a semicolon; in clause (iv), by inserting and after the semicolon; and by adding at the end the following: information on the presence of domestic violence in advance of a child death; .
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