{"id":32385,"date":"2025-12-10T09:05:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casey.org\/?p=32385"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:32:18","slug":"condados-con-obligacion-de-reporte-obligatorio-en-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casey.org\/es\/mandated-reporting-counties-california\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00bfC\u00f3mo est\u00e1n transformando dos condados de California la obligaci\u00f3n de denunciar?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This brief looks at efforts in Los Angeles and San Diego counties to transform mandatory reporting. The work starts with data trends, engages those with lived experience, shifts mindsets, engages cross-system partners, and designs better pathways for families to access support.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n \n \n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Child protection agencies, people with lived experience in the child welfare system, community partners, and advocates around the country are using data and research to explore practices and policies that help to ensure child safety while keeping families safely together. Mandated reporting, as currently designed, is a well-intentioned but often overused and misused practice that can inflict harm, compound trauma on children and families, and divert critical resources away from those who need them the most.<\/p>\n

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Efforts to transform mandated reporting in California \u2014 statewide and localized efforts in Los Angeles, San Diego, and several other counties \u2014 were rooted in the social awakening about race that followed the murders of George Floyd and other people of color. California\u2019s child welfare system is county-administered, with Los Angeles and San Diego having informed the statewide strategy in powerful ways.1<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

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Efforts in Los Angeles formalized in 2023 when the County Board of Supervisors established a Mandated Supporting Initiative<\/a>, housed under the Racial Justice Committee of the Commission for Children and Families. The initiative is driven by public and private partners, and focuses on four key areas of change: mandated reporter training; policy; pathways to prevention services; and shifting narratives.<\/p>\n

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San Diego County efforts began in 2021, advanced by the county\u2019s commitment to address inequities in the child welfare system and transform the system into one focused on child and family well-being. At the forefront of disparities was a disconnect between calls to the child protection hotline and the reports being screened in for investigation. As many hotline calls do not escalate to the need for investigation, child welfare leaders saw an opportunity to connect more families to community resources that address their well-being.<\/p>\n

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This brief describes efforts underway in Los Angeles and San Diego Counties, using a framework of key levers for mandated reporting transformation<\/a> that evolved out of a December 2024 Casey Family Programs-sponsored convening that child protection agency leaders, lived experts, and other partners attended.<\/p>\n

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As they work to redesign the practice of mandated reporting to one that strengthens families, supports community resources, and improves decision-making, each county has both leveraged and informed statewide momentum and policy developments in California, which are described in this brief: How is mandated reporting being transformed in California?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n \n \n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Start with trends and research<\/h2>\n \n \n \n

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In Los Angeles County, several data trends helped to make the case for transforming mandated reporting:<\/p>\n