Plans of Safe Care Infants With Prenatal Substance Exposure and Their Families - Guam

Date: November 2024

Definitions
Citation: Ann. Code Tit. 19, § 13101(t)(5)

Harm to a child's physical health or welfare occurs in a case where there exists evidence of injury, including, but not limited to, any case in which the child is provided with a controlled substance as defined by the Criminal and Correctional Code. However, this paragraph shall not apply to a child's family who provides such drugs to the child pursuant to the direction or prescription of a practitioner. 

Notification/Reporting Requirements

This issue is not addressed in the statutes reviewed.

Assessment of the Infant and Family

This issue is not addressed in the statutes reviewed.

Responsibility for Development of the Plan of Safe Care

This issue is not addressed in the statutes reviewed.

Services for the Infant

This issue is not addressed in the statutes reviewed.

Services for the Parents or Other Caregivers
Citation: Ann. Code Tit. 5, § 221704(h)

In making determinations for expenditures of the Opioid Recovery Trust Fund, members of the Opioid Recovery Advisory Council shall consider programs for pregnant women and new parents who currently or formerly have had a substance use disorder and newborns with neonatal abstinence syndrome.

Monitoring Plans of Safe Care

This issue is not addressed in the statutes reviewed.