Every CFPT member is crucial and adds essential information and perspective for every review. 

General Member Responsibilities

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  1. Attend meetings. The General Statute requires teams to meet a minimum of four times annually.
    • If you can't attend a meeting: Notify the review coordinator and share information from your agency on cases to be reviewed.
  2. Check your agency records for contact with the family, parents, or deceased child.
  3. Help team members:
    • Identify system problems, recommendations, and actions.
    • Decide if more information is needed to conduct a full child fatality review.

If you're unable to fulfill your role responsibilities, please notify the chairperson or review coordinator.

Tab/Accordion Items

  • Each local CFPT member must sign a confidentiality statement.
  • NC law prevents the local CFPT from contacting, questioning, or interviewing families of deceased children as part of the review.
  • NC law protects information shared at local CFPT reviews, even from introduction into court proceedings to maintain the family’s privacy.
  • While the CFPT may periodically release non-identifiable aggregated data, releasing case-specific information would be a serious breach of confidentiality.
    • It is not within the purposes of the CFPT to release any case-specific information, even when the information may be “public knowledge” (e.g., as a result of a trial). Case-specific information which is already public record may be obtained by the public through appropriate channels, which do not include the CFPT.
  • The confidentiality of each participating organization must be recognized and respected.
  • Confidentiality must be appropriately balanced against the need for information to make the prevention system operate successfully.

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