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Board of Commissioners
Action Agenda
Item No. /6-0,
Action Agenda Item Abstract
Meeting Date: November 19 or December 16, 1997
Subject: Child Fatality Prevention Team Report
Department Health Public Hearing Yes_ No_z_
Budget Amendment
Needed Yes_No_z_
Attachments(s) Information Contact Daniel B. Reimer
Orange County Child Fatality Health Director's Office x2411
Prevention Team Report (under Telephone Number
separate cover) Hillsborough 732-8181
Chapel Hill 968-4501
Mebane 227-2031
Durham 688-7331
Purpose:
Local Child Fatality Prevention Teams are charged with the responsibility to report
regularly to the Board of County Commissioners.
Background:
In July 1993, the General Assembly in G.S. X143 - 571 established a statewide
multidisciplinary, multiagency, child fatality prevention system consisting of the State
Child Fatality Prevention Team(CFPT) and local teams specifically established in G.S.
t 143 - 576.1. These local teams are the Community Child Protection Team, established
by Executive Order and then continued by General Statute and the Child Fatality
Prevention Team which was required to go into operation in each county by July 1995.
G.S. t 143 - 576 not only defines the creation of the teams, but also outlines the duties and
composition of both local teams and requires that they submit annual reports to the Board
of County Commissioners.
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The purpose of the local CFPT is threefold:
• to promote understanding of the causes of childhood deaths,
• to identify deficiencies in the delivery of services to children and families by
public agencies, and
• to make and carry out recommendations for changes that will prevent
future child deaths.
Two members of the local Orange County CFPT will present the report. They are Dr.
Butch Huston of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for North Carolina and
Gretchen Aylsworth, Director of the Guardian Ad Litem Program for Orange and
Chatham counties.
Recommendation: To receive as information.