This webinar took place on August 13 at 12 pm PT.

It focused on recent efforts to reform the mandated reporting system with regard to domestic violence, and included discussion of the Mandated Reporting to Community Supporting Task Force. 

As a result of mandatory reporting law and policy, domestic violence survivors and their families are far too often reported to child welfare and subjected to investigations and separation for having experienced domestic violence. Despite decades of evidence of the ineffectiveness of the mandatory reporting law, the racial, socioeconomic, and other inequities inherent in the system and the harms inflicted by the system particularly in cases of domestic violence, efforts to reform the system have been difficult.  Recently we have seen more willingness on the part of public agencies, governments and those connected to them to recognize the need to reform this failed approach.  There are efforts at the federal and state level to acknowledge harm and act on reform are including in California. While many of these efforts focus on the larger approach of the system to  “general neglect”, there is some impact and connection to reporting survivor parents and children as well as other efforts directly addressing domestic violence. 

Please contact the Partnership Policy Team at policy@cpedv.org if you have any questions.