1.2.2 Preventive Service Referrals
These are taken as "P" referrals. The CA/N Hotline Unit will inform the permissive reporter that a referral is being sent to the local office, but that it is not a child abuse/ neglect report.
Preventive Service Referrals include:
a. Information only (open FCS case, pending CA/N investigation)
b. Referrals for services to prevent CA/N:
- Family requests services;
- Caretaker is ill, hospitalized, etc., and no appropriate child care plan;
- Caretaker requesting placement of child but no CA/N;
- Caretaker or child is suicidal;
- Child exhibiting extreme maladaptive behavior; or
- Domestic violence present in home and child is witness to violent episodes.