DYFS Document Describing Harm to Child

A Report from the Protection Subcommitte
The NJ task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect, entitled A Report from the Working Group on Guidelines for an Integrated Child Protection System in New Jersey: The Roles of the Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDT), Regional Diagnostic and Treatment Centers (RDTC) And Child Advocacy Centers (CAC. 2002)

DYFS Reform Plan
"A New Beginning", as published February 18, 2004

Nat'l Child Abuse & Neglect Data Set
The National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) Child File dataset consists of child specific data of all investigated reports of maltreatment to State child protective service agencies. The NCANDS is a federally-sponsored annual national data collection effort created for the purpose of tracking the volume and nature of child maltreatment reporting. The Child File is the case-level component of the NCANDS. There is also an NCANDS State-level component, known as the Agency File, but those data are not part of this collection. States participate on a voluntary basis and submit their data after going through a process in which the state’s administrative system is mapped to the NCANDS data structure. Submitted data consist of all investigations or assessments of alleged child maltreatment that received a disposition in the reporting year. Records are provided at the level of each child on a report, also known as the report-child pair. Data elements include the demographics of children and their perpetrators, types of maltreatment, investigation or assessment dispositions, risk factors, and services provided as a result of the investigation or assessment.

NJTFCAN - Prevention Subcommittee - PLAN
This document is summary of the strategy to implement child abuse prevention programs statewide.

Standards for Prevention Programs
Authored by the Prevention Subcommittee of the NJ Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect and Published by Family Support America

The Relationship of Adverse Childhood...
Experiences to Adult Health Status. The landmark study linking adverse childhood experiences -- inlcuding child abuse -- to adult health status.

The Role of the School Nurse in ....
Recognizing, Repporting and Preventing Child Abuse. Published in School Nurse News, May 2005