To read the column, go here.
To read more about Connecticut’s Department of Children and Family Services, go here.
To read more about Connecticut’s mandated reporting laws, go here.
To read the Pennsylvania grand jury indictment on reported child sex abuse allegations against former Penn State defensive coordinator football coach (and founder of the charity The Second Mile) Gerald A. Sandusky, go here.
To read some of the reaction to Sandusky’s most recent denial of his acts, go here.
To read more about Rep. Diana Urban, go here. To read more about Sen. Terry Gerratana, go here. To read more about the legislative Select Committee on Children, go here.
To read more about Anna Doroghazi and CONNSACS, go here.
To read more about St. Francis hospital’s George Reardon, go here.
Dating Jesus 
As I wrote a year and a half ago, I consider child welfare worker as the most thankless job of all. But even in the best of situations, it can’t be done without help from everyone.
FWIW, I agree taht everyone should be a mandatory reporter
To be honest, I was surprised that CT doesn’t consider all adults mandated reporters. It just makes sense that we would be.
(and Connecticut is one of the states where I was involved in testing the Child Welfare system)
How long ago and how did CT do?
The “LINK” system was developed in the early/mid ’90s and the online portion first went live in summer of ’96. I first was testing back end interfaces with other systems and federal reports (National Child Abuse and Neglect Systems (NCANDS) and Adoption and Foster Care Report System (AFCARS) I left then came back in ’99 to test the Y2K upgrades that covered some other upgrades to the system. CT was, I believe, one of the first if not the first states to have an up and operational SACWIS (Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System). It like many other states did the development under a court order and was done to give the social workers the integrated tool that covered the entire life of child welfare from initial report of abuse/neglect through foster care and adoption and integrated the investigations of both abuse and of providers offering services
Thanks for that.
I’m with you 100%. Everyone needs to take responsibility and report if they see something/hear something. I want to scream about this but it’s like I’m in a sound-proof room.
You aren’t. The more screamers, the better.