Grievance Hearings and the Gomez vs Saenz Settlement

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Grievance Hearings and the Gomez vs Saenz
Settlement
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Learning Objectives

• Understand the Gomez Settlement and Implications
  for Social Work Practice
• Components of a Grievance Hearing
• Articulate the Civil Rights Issues
• Review the Implications when Making a
  Substantiated or Inconclusive Finding in an
  Investigation of Child Abuse/Neglect

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Agenda

• Why are we here?
• Overview of the Gomez Decision
• Review of Penal Codes on findings of
  investigations of Child Abuse- CACI listings
• Full Disclosure
• Documentation
• Grievance Hearing Process

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What and Why?

• The Lawsuit
• CACI Listing
• Notification to those who will be listed on CACI
  (Child Abuse Central Index) due to a
  substantiated or inconclusive finding
• Due Process Rights

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Making a Finding in a Case

• Penal Codes 11169, 11165.1, 11165.12
• Additional Penal Codes
• What are the implications of being listed on
  CACI?

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Case Scenario
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Full Disclosure

• What is your agency process for informing an
  alleged perpetrator that he/she will be listed in
  CACI?
• What strategies might you use in case practice to
  inform alleged perpetrator of the listing? and
  implications for the listing?
• Informing alleged perpetrator of their right to a
  grievance hearing

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Documentation

• Case practices in documentation
• Is it clear as to why the allegation was
  substantiated, inconclusive or unfounded?
• Ruling out a substantiation
• Ruling out an unfounded
• Ruling an inconclusive

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Grievance Hearing

• General Process
• Roles

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Testifying in a Grievance Hearing

• Tips

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Thank You for Coming

• Questions?
• Evaluation