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Local review team startup information

The Colorado Child Fatality Review Committee is a multidisciplinary group of professionals representing public health, medicine, law and law enforcement, child welfare, forensics, mental health, and other special interests related to the health and safety of children. The committee has been reviewing all child deaths in Colorado since 1989 with the following goals:

• To describe trends and patterns of child death in Colorado.
• To identify and investigate the prevalence of risk factors for child death.
• To characterize high-risk groups in terms compatible with the development of public policy.
• To evaluate the service and system responses to children and families who are at high risk and to offer recommendations for improvement in those responses.
• To improve the quality and scope of data necessary for child death investigation and review.

Specific benefits have resulted from the child fatality review process. These include, but are not limited to, a better understanding of how children are dying in Colorado, greater accountability among professionals, participation in the development of prevention strategies, statewide child death investigation training, stimulation of policy assessment, and improvement in dialogue with the media.

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Contact Information 

Mailing Address:

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Prevention Services Division
Injury and Suicide Prevention
4300 Cherry Creek Drive South
PSD-ISP-A4
Denver, CO 80246-1530

Phone: (303) 692-2573
Fax: (303) 691-7901

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