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Commissioner Keigher - DHHS - Health Division - To Implement Changes to the Child Fatality Prevention Local Team per Session Law 2023-134, Effective July 1, 2025
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STAFF CONTACT
Brittain Kenney - Public Health Director - DHHS - Public Health Division - 704-853-5139
BUDGET IMPACT
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No budget impact.
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BACKGROUND
See 2024-387, 2024-423, 2025-009
Establish Single Board and Appointment Structure for three BOC appointments per NCGS 7B-1407; <https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/PDF/BySection/Chapter_7B/GS_7B-1407.pdf>
Gaston County's Child Fatality Prevention (CFPT) and Community Child Protection Teams (CCPT) will become a single Local Team effective July 1, 2025, and follow all guidance that applies to this new child fatality model.
Each Local Team shall include the following appointments by the Board County Commissioners:
1. A local law enforcement officer, appointed by the board of county commissioners.
2. An emergency medical services provider or firefighter, appointed by the board of county commissioners.
3. A parent of a child who died before reaching the child's eighteenth birthday, to be appointed by the board of county commissioners.
POLICY IMPACT
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