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Canopy asks county for extension on Child Protection Team project after hospital and staffing ramp-up delays
Summary
Canopy Child Advocacy Center updated the committee on the Child Protection Team project (started Jan. 1, 2023), reported service and medical-exam statistics, and asked for a contract-extension period (ideally two years) to complete the project after staffing and ramp-up delays.
Canopy Child Advocacy Center and partner health systems briefed the Cuyahoga County Health and Human Services and Aging Committee on Sept. 13, 2025, about the Child Protection Team (CPT) project and asked the county for an extension to complete the project’s remaining work. Canopy said county funding supported a multidisciplinary response model that pairs the county’s child-protective services, law enforcement, prosecution, and three hospital systems — MetroHealth, University Hospitals, and Cleveland Clinic — to provide coordinated forensic interviews, medical evaluations and family advocacy for severe child abuse and neglect cases.
"The child protection team provides critical and potentially life saving services," Deborah Brewer, assistant county prosecutor who oversees the Special Victims Unit, told the committee. Jennifer Johnson, executive director of Canopy, summarized project history and partners and said Canopy began the CPT project Jan. 1, 2023, after…
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