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Craven County social-services teams review child-welfare trends, expand drowning-prevention and safe-sleep outreach
Summary
A county social-services presenter told commissioners that child-welfare reports have slightly declined in recent years, outlined fatality-prevention findings and said the county will pilot life-jacket stations at boat ramps as part of 2025 prevention priorities.
A Craven County Department of Social Services presenter briefed the Board of Commissioners on the work of the Community Child Protection Team and the Child Fatality Prevention Team, reporting on 2024 caseload data, prevention recommendations and planned community partnerships for 2025.
The presenter said that in 2024 the county received 1,292 child-welfare reports; 845 of those were screened in under county policy and 55 involved substance-affected infants. The presenter noted a roughly 4% decrease in reports from 2023 to 2024 and an approximately 7% decrease from 2021 to 2024 in substance-affected reports; the presenter also cited a 27% decline from 2021 to 2024 in a related category discussed in the presentation.
The teams review high-risk cases and identify service gaps.…
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