A California case worker hears screaming as she tries to conduct a telephone session for a child abuse prevention agency; an Oregon doctor sees signs of abuse a teacher might have spotted days earlier.
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Teachers report U.S. child abuse cases far more than any other group of people, but stay-at-home restrictions have curtailed their collective ability to look out for children’s well-being. Doctors, who also report many cases, are typically not seeing children for routine checkups at this time. Such drops are typical during summer break or over Christmas, when reports of abuse drop by half or more and teachers are unable to look out for kids, Cagle said. But in those cases, the kids come back in a few weeks and teachers can have their eyes on them again.Along with child abuse agencies throughout the country, Cagle’s team is trying to alert residents through outreach campaigns that they can report child abuse too.
In Georgia, Oregon and other states, child welfare administrators are offering tips to teachers for spotting abuse even if their contact with students is only virtual or through online classroooms. Case workers at the group’s Orange County locations are slipping notes with a child abuse hotline number into lunches sent home to children in needy families who are not in school, and sending art supplies to families where parents and children seem to be at wits end, said director Michele Essex.In Oregon, new child abuse cases have dropped by 72% since the enactment of social distancing measures.
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