Abuse/Neglect of Children

The Family Division handles cases filed by the state involving abused or neglected children. The purpose of this process is to protect children, keep families together when possible, provide assistance to parents so they can raise healthy and safe children, and to provide treatment and services to children who are placed outside their home. 

Abuse/Neglect Forms

Protocols

• 2023 Protocols Relative to Abuse and Neglect Cases and Permanency Planning

Training Videos

2023 Protocols Relative to Abuse and Neglect Cases and Permanency Planning

• 1 hour, 7-minute video that highlights the updates to the 2023 Protocols Relative to Abuse and Neglect Cases and Permanency Planning.  Features the Circuit Court.

2023 Protocols Relative to Abuse and Neglect Cases and Permanency Planning
(Excerpt:  Chapter 1, Part E, RSA 463 Guardianship Petition Filed During Open RSA 169-C Case)

• 13-minute excerpted video that highlights Chapter 1, Part E from the 2023 Protocols Relative to Abuse and Neglect Cases and Permanency Planning.  Chapter 1, Part E sets forth the handling of a RSA 463 petition filed during an open RSA 169-C case. Features the Circuit Court.

Chapter 8, Dispositional Hearing and Children and Youth in Court  

• 8-minute video (“Court . . . I’m Going”) about the Children and Youth in Court Protocols (Part B) and what children and youth should expect when attending a court hearing.  Features the Circuit Court, CASA and DCYF.

Chapter 11, Permanency Hearings, Post-Permanency Hearings, APPLA for Older Youth and Extended Foster Care for Young Adults 18-21

• 50-minute PowerPoint presentation about permanency and post-permanency hearings featuring the Circuit Court.
• 11-minute overview of the APPLA protocols, and a mock post-permanency hearing, featuring the Circuit Court, CASA and DCYF.
• 6-minute video (“How to Become a Primary Caring Adult (PCA) for a Youth 16 and Older in the Custody of DCYF”) that explains the important role a PCA plays in an older youth’s life, including during a youth’s time in foster care and after a youth ages out and exits the system. Features DCYF as well as New Hampshire youth and a Primary Caring Adult.

Surveys

• CASA GAL or GAL Survey (Print Copy)
• Youth Survey (Print Copy) -This survey is for youth to tell us about their experience going to court. It should take a minute or two to complete. We’d like feedback if a youth’s permanency plan is APPLA and the youth recently attended a Post-Permanency Hearing in an abuse/neglect case.
• Foster Parent and Relative Caregiver (Print Copy)