Sec. 102. 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 to read as follows: The Secretary shall establish, directly or through one or more competitive contracts of not less than 3 years duration, a national clearinghouse for information relating to child abuse and neglect. In establishing the clearinghouse under subsection (a), the Secretary shall consult with the head of each Federal agency involved with child abuse and neglect regarding— the development of the components for information collection; the management of such clearinghouse; and mechanisms for the sharing of information with other Federal agencies and clearinghouses.
The Secretary, through the clearinghouse established under subsection (a), shall maintain and disseminate information on— evidence-based and evidence-informed programs, including private and community-based programs, that have— demonstrated success with respect to the prevention, assessment, identification, and treatment of child abuse or neglect; and potential for broad-scale implementation and replication; the medical diagnosis and treatment of child abuse and neglect and the use of trauma-informed practices that prevent and mitigate the effects of trauma and adverse childhood experiences; best practices relating to— differential response; the use of alternative pathways to connect families experiencing difficulty meeting basic needs or other risk factors associated with child abuse and neglect to community-based family strengthening services to prevent child abuse and neglect, including through the operation of local or State helplines (which may include expanding hotlines and referral systems operated by State and local child protective services agencies for such purposes); making improvements to the child protective services systems, including efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect, prioritize serving children who are at risk of serious harm, and implement protocols to identify, examine, and eliminate child fatalities and near fatalities due to child abuse and neglect; making appropriate referrals related to the physical, developmental, and mental health needs of children who are victims of child abuse or neglect to address the needs of such children and effectively treat the effects of such abuse or neglect; supporting children and youth being cared for by kinship caregivers, including such children whose living arrangements with kinship caregivers occurred without the involvement of a child protective services agency; and workforce development and retention of child protective services personnel; professional development and training resources available at the State and local level— for individuals who are engaged, or who intend to engage, in the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect, including mandated reporters; and for appropriate State 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 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 for community-based family strengthening services in order to safely reduce the number of families unnecessarily involved with child protective services; in conjunction with the National Resource Centers authorized under section 310(b) of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act ( 42 U.S.C. 10410(b) ), effective programs and best practices for developing and carrying out collaboration between entities providing child protective services and entities providing domestic violence services; maintain and disseminate information about the requirements of section 402(c) and best practices relating to the development, implementation, and monitoring of family care plans as described in section 402(c) for infants identified as being affected by substance or alcohol use disorder, including best practices on topics such as— collaboration and coordination across substance abuse agencies, child welfare agencies, maternal and child health agencies, family courts, and other community partners; and identification and delivery of services for affected infants and their families, including for infants affected by substance use disorder, including alcohol use disorder, but whose families do not meet criteria for immediate safety concerns of child abuse and neglect; maintain and disseminate information relating to the incidence of cases of child abuse and neglect in the United States, including information based on data submitted by State child protective services agencies under section 106(d); and compile, analyze, and publish a summary of the research conducted under section 104(a).
The Secretary shall develop and maintain a Federal data collection and analysis system, in consultation with appropriate State and local agencies and experts in the field, to collect, compile, and make available State child abuse and neglect reporting information which, to the extent practical, shall be universal and case specific and integrated with other case-based Federal, State, Tribal, regional, and local child welfare data systems (including the automated foster care and adoption reporting system required under section 479 of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 679 )) which shall include— standardized data on false, unfounded, unsubstantiated, and substantiated reports; comparable information on child fatalities and near fatalities due to child abuse and neglect, including— the number of child fatalities and near fatalities due to child abuse and neglect; and case-specific data about the circumstances under which a child fatality or near fatality occurred due to abuse and neglect, including the data elements described in section 106(d)(3)(E); information about the incidence and characteristics of child abuse and neglect in circumstances in which domestic violence is present; and information about the incidence and characteristics of child abuse and neglect in cases related to substance use disorder.
In carrying out paragraph (1)(D), the Secretary shall ensure that methods are established and implemented to preserve the confidentiality of records relating to case specific data. .
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