Child Welfare Investigation

Recently the Denver Post and 9 News commenced a large investigation of the state’s child welfare system (read the Post series here.) Currently the Colorado Dept. of Human Services (CDHS)’s homepage has listed all of the documents they provided to the two media agencies; also, you can find more at CDHS’s Child Welfare Division website.  The media invesigatio focuses on the issues of child abuse and child fatalities. In 2007 the CDHS published a Child Maltreatment Fatality Report. You can find various other recent resources on child abuse and child welfare in our library, including:

• Child Abuse: Information for School Employees
• Child Abuse and Neglect: An Introductory Manual for Professionals and Paraprofessionals
• Child Abuse and Prevention
• Preventing and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect
• Child Abuse and Neglect Cases in the Colorado Courts, 1996-2000
• Comparing Abuse/Neglect Fatality Characteristics to General Child Welfare Population Characteristics