Working with the Courts in Child Protection

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You are in section: Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1 - Purpose and Overview 2 - The Court System And Child Protection 3 - The Interplay Between Child Maltreatment… 4 - The Juvenile Court Process 5 - The Criminal Court Process 6 - Domestic Relations Cases and Other… 7 - Going to Court 8 - Working with the Courts 9 - Court Improvement and Best Practices Endnotes Appendix A - Glossary of Terms Appendix B - Resource Listings Appendix C - State Telephone Numbers… Appendix D - Guidelines for Child Protective… Appendix E - Legal and Judicial Issues Suggested…

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Acknowledgements

Primary Author

The Honorable William G. Jones is a retired juvenile and family court judge who served for 25 years for the Mecklenburg County District Court hearing child abuse and neglect, termination of parental rights, and other family court cases. He has been a long-time member of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and its Permanency Planning and Family Violence Departments. In Charlotte, North Carolina, Judge Jones was instrumental in the establishment of the Guardian ad Litem Program, the Children's Law Center, a Supervised Exchange and Visitation Center, and the Family Court. He continues to sit as an emergency judge in North Carolina, serves on two court-appointed panels charged with monitoring compliance by child welfare agencies with U.S. District Court injunctions, and acts as a consultant to various communities and programs regarding children and families in the courts.

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Contributor

H. Lien Bragg, M.S.W., is a former consultant with Caliber, an ICF International Company. She has over a decade of social service work experience. Ms. Bragg has served in a variety of victim and community service capacities, including providing technical assistance to State and local public child welfare and human service agencies regarding the intersection of domestic violence and child abuse and neglect.

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Acknowledgment of Prior Edition

This manual is an update of the 1992 publication Working with the Courts in Child Protection by Jane Nusbaum Feller with Howard A. Davidson, Mark Hardin, and Robert M. Horowitz. The first edition of the manual was published in 1980 as Child Protection: The Role of the Courts by Hortense R. Landau, Marsha K. Salus, and Thelma Stiffarm, with Nora Lee Kalb. The prior work informed and contributed to the content of this publication.

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Reviewers

Howard Davidson, American Bar Association

Mark Hardin, American Bar Association

Beverly Heydon, Howard County, Maryland, Office of Law

Katherine Pinto, Howard County, Maryland, Department of Social Services

The Honorable W. Stephen Rideout, Alexandria, Virginia, Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court

Sarah Webster, Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services (retired)

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Technical Advisory Panel

The following were members of the January 2001 Technical Advisory Panel for the User Manual Series contract. The organizations identified reflect each member's affiliation at that time.

Carolyn Abdullah
FRIENDS National Resource Center
Washington, DC

Lien Bragg
American Public Human Services Association
Washington, DC

Sgt. Richard Cage
Montgomery County Police Department
Wheaton, MD

Diane DePanfilis, Ph.D.
University of Maryland at Baltimore School of Social Work
Baltimore, MD

Pauline Grant
Florida Department of Children and Families
Jacksonville, FL

Jodi Hill
Connecticut Department of Children and Families
Hartford, CT

Robert Ortega, Ph.D.
University of Michigan School of Social Work
Ann Arbor, MI

Nancy Rawlings
Kentucky Cabinet for Families and Children
Frankfort, KY

Barry Salovitz
Child Welfare Institute/National Resource Center on Child Maltreatment
Glenmont, NY

Sarah Webster
Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services
Austin, TX

Ron Zuskin
University of Maryland at Baltimore School of Social Work
Baltimore, MD

The following members subsequently were added to the Technical Advisory Panel:

William R. (Reyn) Archer III, M.D.
Hill and Knowlton, Inc.
Washington, DC

David Popenoe, Ph.D.
National Marriage Project
Princeton, NJ

Bob Scholle
Independent Consultant
Pittsburgh, PA

Brad Wilcox, Ph.D.
University of Virginia, Department of Sociology
Charlottesville, VA

Additional Acknowledgements

The third edition of the User Manual Series was developed under the guidance and direction of Irene Bocella, Federal Task Order Officer, and Catherine Nolan, Director, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect. Also providing valuable input and review were Susan Orr, Associate Commissioner, Children's Bureau, and Emily Cooke, Special Assistant for Court Improvement, Division of Program Implementation, Children's Bureau.

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You are in section: Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1 - Purpose and Overview 2 - The Court System And Child Protection 3 - The Interplay Between Child Maltreatment… 4 - The Juvenile Court Process 5 - The Criminal Court Process 6 - Domestic Relations Cases and Other… 7 - Going to Court 8 - Working with the Courts 9 - Court Improvement and Best Practices Endnotes Appendix A - Glossary of Terms Appendix B - Resource Listings Appendix C - State Telephone Numbers… Appendix D - Guidelines for Child Protective… Appendix E - Legal and Judicial Issues Suggested…

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