New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 3A - CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Chapter 4 - DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES CHILD FATALITY AND NEAR FATALITY REVIEW BOARD
Subchapter 1 - INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
Section 3A:4-1.3 - Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings:

"Board" means the Child Fatality and Near Fatality Review Board.

"Casework supervisor" means a Supervising Family Service Specialist I whose job responsibility includes, but is not limited to, supervising subordinate supervisors in the delivery of protective and child welfare services in the Division.

"Child" means any person under the age of 18.

"Child abuse and neglect" means the same as the definition of "abused or neglected child" at N.J.A.C. 3A:11-1.3.

"CCAPTA" means New Jersey Comprehensive Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, N.J.S.A. 9:6-8.88 et seq.

"Department" means the Department of Children and Families.

"Division" means the Division of Child Protection and Permanency in the Department of Children and Families.

"Fatality" means death.

"Full review" means a review of all available case-related material by the Board or its local or regional community-based team at a duly convened meeting.

"Governmental support systems" means public entities providing services to children and their families, including, but not limited to, the Division of Child Protection and Permanency and other agencies within the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Health, the Office of the Attorney General, and the Office of the Public Defender.

"Near fatality" means a serious or critical condition, as certified by a physician, in which a child suffers either a permanent mental or physical impairment, a life-threatening injury or a condition that creates a probability of death within the foreseeable future.

"Team" means a local or regional community-based team established by the Child Fatality and Near Fatality Review Board.