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Child Abuse: New York Mandated Reporter Training - 2 Contact Hours
This course follows the required curriculum and materials provided in the mandated reporter trainer's resource guide, identifying and reporting child abuse and maltreatment/neglect, which was developed by the research foundation of SUNY/BSC/C DHS. This course has been updated utilizing the 2025 New York State Mandated Reporter Training Syllabus. In regard to this content revision, please direct your attention to the newly added objective #2 and its’ coordinating new section “Indicators in Children with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities” for the bulk of the curriculum update.
Course Outline
- Outcomes
- Objectives
- Updates to New York State Requirements
- Purpose
- Why is this Training so Important?
- Background
- Historical Perspectives: University of Rochester
- Shared Mission
- Statistics
- Understanding Trauma & Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
- Understanding and Reducing Implicit & Explicit Bias
- Mandated Reporters
- The Legal Role of the Mandated Reporter
- Professional Capacity of the Mandated Reporter
- Defining Minimum Degree of Care
- Defining Maltreatment & Abuse
- Risk Factors of Child Maltreatment & Abuse
- Protective Factors of Child Maltreatment & Abuse
- Indicators of Child Maltreatment & Abuse
- Talking with Children
- Mandated Reporter Decision Tree
- Making the Call to the SCR
- What Happens After You Call SCR?
- Positive CPS Intervention
- Child Protective Services Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- Glossary of Terms
- Case Study Learning Examples
- Conclusion
- New York State Resources
- Additional Resources
- References
Outcomes
≥ 92% of participants will know how to make an informed decision about whether a situation involves child abuse or maltreatment, what the reporting obligation is, and how to go about making such a report.
Objectives
After completing this continuing education course, the participant will be able to:
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Determine if a child shows indicators of maltreatment or abuse, including in a virtual setting.
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Recognize signs of intellectual and/or developmental disabilities in children and factors to consider when determining whether a child with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities shows indicators of maltreatment or abuse.
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Recognize the impact of trauma and ACEs on children, families, and yourself.
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Recognize the mitigating effects of the five protective factors on trauma.
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Recognize the impact of bias on your decision-making.
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Understand when you have a legal obligation to call the SCR.
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Recognize how you may better connect individuals and families with services.
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Know how to prepare to make the call to the SCR.
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Know how to complete the LDSS 2221A form.
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Understand your rights as a Mandated Reporter.
Updates to New York State Requirements
This 2-hour course was developed and updated per the 2025 updates to the curriculum content for the Identification and Reporting of Child Abuse and Maltreatment/Neglect mandated workshop for the state of New York. An extensive list of additional content was required to be added after being signed into law amendments to Social Services Law § 413. This course includes all of the required content and curriculum as developed by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (New York State [NYS], 2025).
Also, per New York, all professions are no longer required to complete both a pre-test and a post-test. These are now optional, and both included in this course, in order to demonstrate the transfer of knowledge and information about their duties and responsibilities as Mandated Reporters of child abuse and maltreatment.
Purpose
This course is specifically and carefully created for New York professionals. This course will cover when you are legally required to contact the Statewide Central Register (SCR), when children and families may be more appropriately assisted through community-based services and other supports, how to reduce bias in the decision-making process of whether a call must be made to SCR, the impact of trauma as well as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on children and families, and the protective factors and supports that you are able to refer families to in lieu of making a SCR report (NYS, 2025).