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Persons and Professionals Required By Massachusetts Law to Report Abuse
Provided below is a list of Persons and Professional Required by Massachusetts Law to Report Child Abuse or Child Neglect. Child abuse should be reported to the Department of Social Services.
Counseling Professionals
- Alcoholism counselors
- Clinical social workers
- Drug Counselor
- Family counselors
- Guidance Counselors
- Mental health professional
- Psychiatrists
- Psychologists
Dental Professionals
- Dental hygienist
- Dental office personnel engaged in treatment or care
- Dental secretary
- Dentists
Education Professionals
- Educational administrators
- Guidance counselors
- Public or private schoolteachers
- Public School employees
- School attendance officers
Medical Professionals
- Allied mental health and licensed human services professionals
- Chiropractors
- Coroner
- Emergency medical technicians
- Hospital personnel
- Hospital personnel engaged in the examination care or treatment of persons
- Medical examiners
- Medical interns
- Medical Office Assistants,
- Medical Secretaries
- Nurses
- Optometrists
- Osteopaths
- Physicians
- Podiatrists
Officers / Law Enforcement Professionals
- Any other law enforcement official
- Assistant district attorney;
- Clerks magistrate of the district courts
- District attorney
- Firefighters
- Investigator employed in the office of a district attorney
- Office of Child Care Services licensors
- Parole officers
- Peace officer
- Police officers
- Probation officers
Professional Care Takers
- Any person paid to care for a child in a home or program funded or licensed by the Commonwealth, which provides day care or residential services
- Any person paid to care for or work with a child any public or private facility
- Childcare resource and referral agencies/ agents
- Childcare workers
- Day care employees / workers
- Family day care and childcare food program workers
- Foster parents
- Professional Care Takers
- Social workers
- Volunteer in a residential care facility
- Voucher management agencies and agents
Religious Figures
- A person employed by a church or religious body to supervise, educate, coach, train or counsel a child on a regular basis
- Accredited Christian Science practitioner
- Clergy member
- Leader of any church or religious body
- Ordained or licensed minister
- Person performing official duties on behalf of a church or religious body that are recognized as the duties of priest, rabbi, clergy, ordained or licensed minister, leader of any church or religious body, or accredited Christian Science practitioner
- Priest
- Rabbi
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