Virginia's Multidisciplinary Teams

Components may include:

  • Missions
     
  • Statements of Affliation
     
  • Statement of Purpose
     
  • Types of Cases Covered
     
  • Goals
     
  • Procedures:
    • Criteria for law enforcement referral to CPS
    • Criteria for CPS referral to law enforcement
    • Procedures for joint investigations, including timing, prime-decision making authority, and concurrent prosecutions
    • Criteria for child's removal
    • Criteria for arrest of suspects
    • Provisions for joint training
    • Provision for multidisciplinary team consultation
    • Provision for regularly evaluating the effectiveness of the protocol and modifying it as needed
       
  •  Signature/Date of each party to the agreement