Making the Decision to Report Suspected Child Maltreatment: Updated NYS Mandated Reporter Training

Many professionals throughout the United States are mandated reporters of suspected child maltreatment. However, the legal requirement to report is often confusing to navigate in relation to our other professional and ethical responsibilities. This workshop provides profession-based context to the role of mandated reporter where professionals are charged with knowing how to support their clients and when they are required to report a concern to child protective services. Mandated reporters will learn a framework to guide the decision to make this “tough call” using research findings and practi...Read morecal advice based on real case examples.

This training meets the updated 2023 New York State standards for training in the identification and reporting of suspected child maltreatment. Less...

Learning Objectives

  • Explain considerations for determining when making a report to child protective services is required by law.
  • Identify the ethical/ moral and legal conundrums faced when making the decision to report.
  • Apply a framework to guide the process for deciding whether to make a report.

Target Audience

This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.

Learning Levels

  • All Levels

Thursday, January 09, 2025

Live Interactive Webinar

11:00 AM EST - 01:00 PM EST

Register for this Webinar
$57.00
EARN 2 CE Credit Hours
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About the speaker

Kathryn Krase, JD, MSW

Kathryn Krase, JD, MSW

Kathryn Krase is a social worker, lawyer, researcher, educator, and expert on professional ethics. She has significant experience as a family law practitioner, social work supervisor, along with more than 20 years of experience in faculty and administrative roles in undergraduate, masters, and doctoral level social work programs in and around New York City. Dr. Krase is the Principal Consultant for Krase Consulting, in Brooklyn, New York, where she focuses on educating mental and physical health professionals on their general legal and ethical obligations.

Agenda

11:00-11:10am

  • Setting the Stage: Mandated Reporting in Context

11:10-11:50am

  • Defining & Identifying Child Abuse, Neglect and other forms of Maltreatment
  • Understanding Complexities: Risk factors & Resilience
    • Adverse Childhood Experiences
    • Implicit Bias

11:50-12:40pm

  • Making the Decision to Report (or Not)
  • The Role of Professionals as Mandated Reporters

12:40-1:00pm

  • Important Considerations
  • Q&A & Closing 

CE Information - Earn 2 CE Credit Hours

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Making the Decision to Report Suspected Child Maltreatment: Updated NYS Mandated Reporter Training
6082, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by CE Learning Systems, LLC as an individual course. Individual courses, not providers, are approved at the course level. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: [period]. Social workers completing this course receive 3 ethics continuing education credit(s).

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New York State Education Department - Mandated Reporting
Krase Consulting d/b/a Making the Tough Call is approved to offer training in the identification and reporting of child abuse and maltreatment. Pursuant to Section 57.3(a) of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education, this approval is valid for a two-year period through 8/31/25. Provider ID# 80970

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