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Reportable Incidents Include:

• Death of a child
• Child is in a life-threatening situation
• A significant change in a child’s medical condition
• Psychiatric hospitalization
• A child who is missing from care and placed on the Amber Alert system returns to care
• Natural disasters where children are displaced
• Suicide attempts
• Injuries requiring medical treatment including psychiatric hospitalization
• Runaway incidents
• A caregiver/staff member or child contracts a communicable disease
• Commission of a Crime, including those committed by youth or crimes occur at a home or facility in which youth are placed
• Allegations of abuse, neglect or abusive treatment
• A child’s abuse, neglect, or exploitation.
• Allegation and/or confirmed child-on-child physical and/or sexual abuse.