Colorado. Child Fatality Prevention System
Author
Pub. Date
2018-
Description
The death of a child should invoke a community response. The circumstances involved in most child deaths are multidimensional, and responsibility rarely resides in one place. The ultimate purpose of child death review is to keep children and youth alive. By understanding how and why children die, our communities can take action to prevent other similar deaths. Local child fatality prevention review teams should make sure that every child death that...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
This document is intended to serve as a guide for facilitating Child Fatality Review. Because each local team will develop a unique structure, it is understood that this guidance may not be the best model for all teams. As such, teams are welcome to adapt from this model to accommodate the needs of their individual team.
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
CFPS applies a public health approach to prevent child deaths by aggregating data from individual child deaths, describing trends and patterns of the deaths, and recommending prevention strategies. The data presented within this data summary come from comprehensive, statutorily-mandated reviews of deaths of people under age 18 occurring in Colorado between 2013 and 2017. Nationally, data indicate that substance use plays a role in the leading causes...
