CERAP Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol
Answer---- Structured approach to decision-making designed to guide support
and document professional judgement in situations in which children are
potentially in danger immediately or in the very near future. A CERAP is used
through the life...
Answer---- Structured approach to decision-making designed to guide support
and document professional judgement in situations in which children are
potentially in danger immediately or in the very near future. A CERAP is used
through the life of a case; always.
Focus only on the information which you are given.
Answer---- Do not read, assume, or attribute evidence to other "ifs" of the
situation.
Key information related to Safety Threat Assessment:
Answer---- Child vulnerability
Severity of the Behavior/Condition
History
,Safety Threat Identification
If a scenario is a safety concern:
Answer---- all of the threat answers will be either safety concern or no
concern
If a scenario is a risk concern:
Answer---- all of the threat answers will be either risk concern or no concern.
If any one of the individual threats is present in the scenario:
Answer---- you would mark that group as a Safety or Risk Concern.
If none of the individual threats are present in the scenario:
Answer---- We would mark that group No Concern
Physical Abuse/Neglect/Threat:
, Answer---- This section contains five safety threats related to causing
moderate to severe harm or threatening harm.
History of abuse neglect (physical or sexual)
Answer---- This section has only one safety threat associated with past
history of abuse and/or neglect. This does not include only indicated reports. It
does include the anecdotal accounts too.
Caretaker Behaviors:
Answer---- This section combines threats that relate to the behavior of the
caretaker. Remember the definition of the caretaker-- anyone who influences
the safety of the child.
Special issues:
Answer---- Is where we combine sexual abuse and the underlying issues we
have been discussing (ie. developmental disability, poverty, neglect)
Human trafficking:
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