Mandated Reporting & Social Justice

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• Understand what reporting law actually requires, and where suspicion crosses into overreach
• Apply ethics codes through a racial and social justice lens
• Get a practical framework for “just” reporting you can use with real cases

 

Every clinician who becomes a mandated reporter inherits a decision that was written into law over fifty years ago, built on the assumption that reporting a suspicion is always the safer choice.

Simply put, that assumption hasn’t held up.

Children of color are reported, investigated, and removed from their families at rates their white peers are not, and a system created to protect kids has, for many families, become something closer to surveillance.

This training doesn’t ask you to set aside your legal obligation to report. It asks you to understand what that obligation rests on, and where it can go wrong.

Learn from ethics and legal expert Kathryn Krase, PhD, JD, MSW, founder of Making the Tough Call and a longtime consultant to government and community-based organizations on the reporting of suspected child maltreatment.

You’ll learn how to:

• Apply ethical principles through a racial and social justice lens
• Identify the roots of disproportionate impact at the macro, mezzo, and micro level
• Distinguish when a suspicion legally requires a report and when it doesn’t
• Evaluate how your own lens shapes your reporting decisions
• Appy a practical framework for “just” reporting to real case examples

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