Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act

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The Child Abuse and Prevention Act (Public Law 93-247) of 1988 provides federal funding to US states to support prevention, assessment, investigation, prosecution and treatment activities and grants public institutions and nonprofit organizations for demonstration programs and projects. In addition, identifying the federal role in supporting research, evaluation, technical assistance, and data collection activities; stipulate the Office of Child Abuse and Abandonment; and mandated the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Abandonment Information. It also sets the minimum definition of child abuse and neglect.

The main federal law that deals with child abuse and neglect is the CAPTA, which was originally enacted in 1974 (Public Law 93-247). This has been amended several times and was recently amended and reauthorized by the CAPTA Reauthorization Act on December 20, 2010.

Full text of long laws is listed under U.S. Code. Title 42, Chapter 67. [1]. A booklet that presents the CAPTA, as amended by the 2003 Safe and Safe Child Guarding Act, includes the Adoption Opportunity and Child Helpline Act, as amended, available from the Children's Bureau. [2]

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Legislative history

The Act is fully rewritten in the Prevention of Child Torture, Adoption and Family Services Act of 1988 (Public Law 100-294). This was further altered by the Child Abuse Prevention Challenge Grants Reauthorization Act of 1989 (P.L. 101-126 and the Free Drug Amendment of 1989 (Public Law 101-226).

Community-Based Abuse Prevention and Abandonment Grants is a program originally endorsed by Sections 402 through 409 of the Continuing Implementation Act for Fiscal Year 1985 (Public Law 98-473). Child Abuse Prevention Challenges The Reauthorization Act of 1989 (Public Law 101-126) transfers the program to the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, as amended.

Title III, Special Prevention Services Regarding Children of a Risky Neglected Family or Family, added to the Abuse and Abandonment and Child Service Law by Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act Amendments of 1990 (Public Law 101-645).

The Law on the Prevention and Treatment of Children has been amended and re-authorized by Child Abuse, the Domestic Violence and Domestic Violence Act, 1992 (Public Law 102-295), and has been amended by Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention of Youth in 1992 (Public Law 102 -586).

The Act was amended by the American Technical Amendment longer than 1993 (Public Law 103-171, 12/2/93) and Human Service Amendment of 1994 (Public Law 103-252, 5/19/94).

CAPTA was further amended by the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act Amendments of 1996 (PL 104-235, 10/3/96), which changed Title I, replacing Family Based Family-Based Centers II with a new Community-Based Resource Program and Family Support, and revoke Title III.

CAPTA was recently amended by the 2003 Child Safety and Family Safeguard Act (PL 108-36, 6/25/03), which changed Title I and replaced Title II, Community Based Family Resource and Support Program with Grants-Based Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Abandonment.

CAPTA was re-authorized in 2010, as the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act 2011 (Public Law 111-320)