Cps Policies & Practices Expert Witnesses
Cps policies & practices expert witnesses and consultants listed here may be able to form expert opinions, draft expert witness reports, provide expert witness testimony at deposition and/or trial as or serve as consulting (non-testifying) experts on cps policies & practices. The cps policies & practices expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Child Abuse and Social Work.
Mayola Miranda, DPA, LCSW, MSW
Orange, California
Social Work, Child Abuse
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Child protective services, public child welfare, foster care, child abuse & neglect, nonminor dependents, emergency removals, dependency court, CPS standards of care, CPS policies & practices, civil rights, CPS investigations, mandated reporting, reasonable services, reunification, .26 hearings
Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25+ years of diverse work experience including in the public sector, private sector, non-profit, academia, and military. A former Child Protective Services (CPS) social worker & supervisor of 15 years with insider knowledge about child welfare. Hands-on experience with hundreds of child welfare-involved families and children in all phases of a child dependency case. Supervised, trained, and taught CPS social workers, interns, and Master of Social Work students.
Specialized areas of knowledge include:
Certificates of Merits
Emergency Child Removals, warrants
Warrantless removals, exigent circumstances, imminent risk
Child Protective Services policies, practices, and procedures
Child abuse and neglect
Foster care, out of home care, congregate care
Case Plans: Reunification, family maintenance and transitional living plans
Standards of care
§ 1983 Civil rights, Monell Liability
AB12/Non-Minor dependents
Structured Decision-Making (SDM)
Risk asses...
