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2. Adult Protective Services - Wikipedia

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   Adult Protective Services. In the United States, Adult Protective Services (APS) are social services provided to abused, neglected, or exploited older adults and adults with significant disabilities. [1] APS is typically administered by local or state health, aging, or regulatory departments and includes a multidisciplinary approach to helping ...

3. Mandatory reporting in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In 1974, the United States Congress passed the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), which provides funds to states for development of Child Protective Services (CPS) and hotlines to prevent serious injuries to children. These laws and the media and advocacy coverage and research brought about a gradual change in societal ...

4. Prisons in California - Wikipedia

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   Prisons in California. The California State Prison System is a system of prisons, fire camps, contract beds, reentry programs, and other special programs administered by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) Division of Adult Institutions to incarcerate approximately 117,000 people as of April 2020. [1]

5. Mandated reporter - Wikipedia

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   Mandated reporter. In the United States, a mandated reporter is a person who is legally required to report child abuse and neglect to Child Protective Services upon reasonable suspicion. Mandatory reporting laws generally apply to professionals who interact regularly with children (for example, teachers and pediatricians) while in some states ...

6. Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act of 2017 - Wikipedia

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   On October 18. 2017, President Trump signed into law the Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act of 2017 (P.L. 115–70 [1]), identifying the need for data on elder abuse. An elder abuse case has many stages from the incident through investigation (by adult protective services or law enforcement), prosecution, and trauma recovery.

7. Civil Harassment Restraining Order - Wikipedia

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   Miscellaneous. Historical laws. A Civil Harassment Restraining Order (CHO) is a form of restraining order or order of protection used in the state of California. It is a legal intervention in which a person who is deemed to be harassing, threatening or stalking another person is ordered to stop, with the goal of reducing risk of further threat ...

8. Growing need. Glaring gaps. Why mental health care can be a ...

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   Between 2020 and 2021, the number of California children and teens served by the state developmental disability system who were deemed to have "complex needs" — a state term for those who needed ...

9. List of Hoarders episodes - Wikipedia

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   If she doesn't clean up, her daughters will call Adult Protective Services. Mary's historic home in Napa, California is filled with so much stuff her two young children are in danger of being removed from the home by Child Protective Services.