Connecticut's Novel Prenatal Substance Exposure Policy Is Associated With Declining CPS Reports And Foster Placements.

ABSTRACT: In 2019, Connecticut became the first state to implement a deidentified notification policy for infants with prenatal substance exposure in response to updated provisions contained in the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) of 1974. Our study aimed to test whether Connecticut's notification policy was associated with an increase in Child Protective Services (CPS) interactions for this population. We analyzed child welfare and vital records over the course of a sixty-six-month time frame starting two years before the policy took effect. We used interrupted time series models to estimate monthly reports to CPS and foster care placements for infants with prenatal substance exposure in Connecticut's eight counties between March 2017 and July 2022. Reports and foster placem

SUBMITTER: Sieger ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12444883 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature