12/13/23-Licensure Legal Implications and Child Protective Services

Presentation Resources
American Bar Association Quality Improvement Center. Center on Children and the Law. Case Law Review: Key Legal Issues in Civil Child Protection Cases Involving Prenatal Substance Exposure.
American Bar Association Quality Improvement Center. Center on Children and the Law. Case Law Review: Key Legal
Issues in Civil Child Protection Cases Involving Prenatal Substance Exposure.

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women, Reproductive Health Care for Incarcerated Pregnant, Postpartum, and Nonpregnant Individuals, Committee Opinion, Number 830, July 2021

• Bishop, D. et al. Pregnant Women and Substance Use: Overview of Research & Policy in the United States. The George Washington University Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health. February 2017.

• Cara O'Connor, A Guiding Hand or a Slap on the Wrist: Can Drug Courts be the Solution to Maternal Opioid Use?, 109 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 103 (2019).

• Cara Angelotta, Paul S. Appelbaum. Criminal Charges for Child Harm from Substance Use in Pregnancy.Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online Jun 2017, 45 (2) 193-203

• Guttmacher Institute. Substance Use During Pregnancy: State Laws and Policies. November 1, 2022. Accessed from:
  https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/substance-use-during-pregnancy

• Kook, T., Smith-Butterwick, A. Medication Assisted Treatment and Child Welfare. Michigan Judicial Institute Family Division Referee Webinar: Juvenile Division. January 26, 2022.

• Michigan Department of Health & Human Services. Mandated Reporter Training Children’s Protective Services. 2019

• https://www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/adult-child-serv/abuse-neglect/childrens/mandated-reporters/mandated-reporters-list

• https://www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/-/media/Project/Websites/mdhhs/Folder1/Folder21/MR_Guide_to_Detailed_Reporting31419.pdf?rev=3934049a6c2645c68c62af79d8c16b38&hash=6BA417A62446329033AC04B42BAE6FD9

Legal Resources

• Mental Health Parity and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010
  https://www.ncsl.org/documents/health/MHparity&mandates.pdf

• Michigan Child Custody Act of 1970.
  MCL 722.23
  http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(aujs2f4a1fywr3dgohli1dlh))/mileg.aspx?page=getObject&objectName=mcl-722-23

• In The Matter of Baby X
  97 Mich. App. 111 (1980)
  Decided April 23, 1980
  https://www.leagle.com/decision/198020897michapp1111194

• Grodin v. Grodin
  102 Mich. App. 396 (1980)
  Decided December 15, 1980
  https://www.leagle.com/decision/1980498102michapp3961453

• People v. Hardy
  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12041155/

• Michigan:Mother Infant Health & Equity Improvement Plan
  https://www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/0,5885,7-339-71550_96967_97025---,00.html

• Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
  https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cb/capta.pdf

• ACOG Opinion Paper 711, August 2017 Opioid Use and Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy in supporting MAT during pregnancy.
  https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2017/08/opioid-use-and-opioid-use-disorder-in-pregnancy

• OWH. White Paper: Opioid Use, Misuse,and Overdose in Women (2016)
  https://www.prevention.org/Resources/f79b971d-c1f7-4a36-ba49-458e7786565d/white-paper-opioid-508.pdf

• Setting Aside Convictions MCL 780.621 Michigan (2021)
  http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(rwzrqcpv51aboflxgp4dqzaa))/mileg.aspx?page=getobject&objectname=mcl-780-621

• Knowledge or suspicion of alcohol, controlled substance or metabolite or controlled substance in body of newborn infant: report required; exception.Michigan newborn drug testing laws
  MCL 722.623a
  http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(chd5d1euh4fh1itconqg3aii))/mileg.aspx?page=GetObject&objectname=mcl-722-623a

• State Policies on Substance Use During Pregnancy
  https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/substance-use-during-pregnancy