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 PUBLIC LAW 102-295—MAY 28, 1992 106 STAT. 189 "(D) ensures properly trained and support staff with specialized knowledge, to carry out their child protection duties; and "(E) is sensitive to ethnic and cultural diversity; "(4) the failure to coordinate and comprehensively prevent and treat child abuse suid neglect threatens the ^tures of tens of thousands of children and results in a cost to the Nation of billions of dollars in direct expenditures for health, social, and special educational services and ultimately in the loss of work productivity; "(5) all elements of American society have a shared responsibility in responding to this national child and family emergency; "(6) substantial reductions in the prevalence and incidence of child abuse and neglect and the alleviation of its consequences are matters of the highest national priority; "(7) national policy should strengthen families to remedy the causes of child abuse and neglect, provide support for intensive services to prevent the unnecessary removal of children from families, and promote the reunification of families if removal has taken place; "(8) the child protection system should be comprehensive, child-centered, family-focused, and community-based, should incorporate all appropriate measures to prevent the occurrence or recurrence of child abuse and neglect, and should promote physical and psychological recovery and social re-integration in an environment that fosters the health, self-respect, and dignity of the child; "(9) because of the limited resources available in low-income communities, Federal sdd for the child protection system should be distributed with due regard to the relative financial need of the communities; "(10) the Federal government should ensure that every community in the United States has the fiscal, human, and technical resources necessary to develop and implement a successful and comprehensive child protection strategy; "(11) the Federal government should provide leadership and assist communities in their child protection efforts by— "(A) promoting coordinated planning among all levels of government; "(B) generating and sharing knowledge relevant to child protection, including the development of models for service delivery; "(C) strengthening the capacity of States to assist communities; "(D) allocating sufficient financial resources to assist States in implementing community plans; "(E) helping communities to carry out their child protection plans by promoting the competence of professional, paraprofessional, and volunteer resources; and "(F) providing leadership to end the abuse and neglect of the nation's children and youth.**, (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.— The table of contents of the Act is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 1 the following new item: "Sec. 2. Findings.".

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