New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 8 - SOCIAL SERVICES
Chapter 10 - CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
Part 2 - PROTECTIVE SERVICES INTAKE
Section 8.10.2.13 - PRIORITIZATION
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
Intake workers shall prioritize accepted reports as follows:
A. Emergency report (E): A report alleging a danger indicator involving a vulnerable child, including but not limited to an abandoned infant or child, any physical injury to an infant, a potentially life threatening situation, recent sexual abuse, a law enforcement request for immediate response, and recent serious trauma, such as a head injury, burns, or broken bones. An emergency report requires an investigation be initiated within three hours of the SCI supervisor's screening decision.
B. Priority one report (P1): A report alleging physical injury involving a vulnerable child who is in a safe environment at the time of the report, or a report alleging a danger indicator involving a vulnerable child but where the alleged perpetrator will not have access to the child for the next 24 hours. A priority one report requires an investigation be initiated within 24 hours of the SCI supervisor's screening decision.
C. Priority two report (P2): A report alleging danger indicators involving a vulnerable child with no immediate concern for the child's safety. This may include, but is not limited to, alleged physical abuse with no indication of injury or alleged abuse or neglect where the alleged perpetrator no longer has access to the child or a protective parent guardian or custodian has already intervened. A priority two report requires an investigation be initiated within five calendar days of the SCI supervisor's screening decision.
D. Custody of a safe haven infant: When SCI receives a report that an infant has been left under the provision of the Safe Haven Act at a safe haven site, as defined above at 8.10.2.7 NMAC, the children, youth and families department through its protective services division is deemed to have emergency custody of that infant. Law enforcement is not notified and a law enforcement investigation or 48 hour hold is not required.
