Course Summary
**This course has been updated utilizing the 2025 New York State Mandated Reporter Training Syllabus. In regard to this content revision, please direct your attention to the newly added objective #2 and its’ coordinating new section “Indicators in Children with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities” for the bulk of the curriculum update.
Contact Hour(s):
2 Contact Hours
Author:
Alyssa King, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC, PMHNP-BC, PMH-C, CLC, CNE
This peer-reviewed course is applicable for the following professions:
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN), Athletic Trainer (AT/AL), Certified Medication Assistant (CMA), Certified Nurse Midwife, Certified Nurse Practitioner, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), Dietetic Technicians, Registered (DTR), Dietitian/Nutritionist (RDN), Home Health Aid (HHA), Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA), Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN), Medical Assistant (MA), Medication Aide, Midwife (MW), Nursing Student, Occupational Therapist (OT), Occupational Therapist Assistant (OTA), Other, Physical Therapist (PT), Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA), Registered Nurse (RN), Registered Nurse Practitioner, Respiratory Care Practitioner, Respiratory Therapist (RT)
Accreditations:
The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), Board of Certification for Athletic Trainers (BOC)
State Approvals:
Alabama, Provider #ABNP1485; California BRN Provider #CEP # 13509; Kentucky Board of Nursing Provider #7-0085; Florida Board of Nursing Provider 50-353; New York State Education Department’s State Board for Physical Therapy; The AAFP has reviewed Child Abuse: New York Mandated Reporter Training and deemed it acceptable for up to 2.00 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Elective credit. Term of Approval is from 07/01/2026 to 06/30/2027. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Course Description:
This course discusses the indicators of maltreatment or abuse, the impact of trauma and ACEs, the influence of implicit bias, the New York State-specific responsibilities and legal obligations of contacting the State Central Register, how to complete the New York’s LDSS 2221A form, and the rights of the Mandated Reporter.
Outcomes:
≥ 92% of participants will know how to make an informed decision about whether a situation involves child abuse or maltreatment, what the reporting obligation is, and how to go about making such a report.
Objectives:
After completing this continuing education course, the participant will be able to:
- Determine if a child shows indicators of maltreatment or abuse, including in a virtual setting.
- Recognize signs of intellectual and/or developmental disabilities in children and factors to consider when determining whether a child with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities shows indicators of maltreatment or abuse.
- Recognize the impact of trauma and ACEs on children, families, and yourself.
- Recognize the mitigating effects of the five protective factors on trauma.
- Recognize the impact of bias on your decision-making.
- Understand when you have a legal obligation to call the SCR.
- Recognize how you may better connect individuals and families with services.
- Know how to prepare to make the call to the SCR.
- Know how to complete the LDSS 2221A form.
- Understand your rights as a Mandated Reporter.
Disclosures:
CEUFast Inc. and the course planning team for this educational activity do not have any relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.