Any time child protection knocks on your door, the experience can be terrifying, emotionality challenging, and traumatic for all members of the family. The local child welfare agency must assess allegations of child abuse and neglect and take steps necessary to protect children whose health and welfare is immediately endangered.
Allegation of child maltreatment include:
Child Welfare Matters include “family assessments” or “child maltreatment investigations” which may result the following court actions:
Child protection workers may ask the court to direct a parent to do or refrain from doing something. Child protection may seek to remove your children from your care, custody and control to place your children in non-relative foster care. Sometimes child protection may immediately seek to permanently sever your parental rights to your children.
Whether the local child protection agency is investigating allegations of maltreatment or threatening you with court action seeking to remove your children from your care, custody and control… quality legal representation matters.
If your adult child, relative, or family friend is involved in a CHIPS case it may be in the children’s best interest that you intervene in the court proceedings. Intervention into the CHIPS Matter may lead to your ability to serve as a relative or kinship placement and may help identify you as a permanency resource for the children in the event the children are not reunified with their parent.
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