Who is a Mandated Reporter?

***Please note that some states require ALL ADULTS (18+) to report suspected instances of child abuse. Check your state’s department of health and human services website to learn if this applies to you.

School Personnel

  • Teacher

  • Instructional aide

  • Teacher’s aide or teacher’s assistant

  • Classified employee of any public school

  • Administrative Officer or supervisor of child welfare and attendance, or a certified pupil personnel employee

  • Administrator of a public or private day camp

  • Administrator or employee of a public or private youth center, youth recreation program or youth organization

  • Administrator or employee of a public or private children’s organization

  • Employee of a county office of education or the California Department of Education, whose duties bring the employee into contact with children on a regular basis

  • Head start teacher

  • Licensing worker or licensing evaluator employed by a licensing agency

  • Employee of a school district police or security department

  • Any person who is an administrator or presenter of, or a counselor, in a child abuse prevention program in any public or private school

  • District attorney investigator, inspector or family support officer

  • Special education teachers, and staff.

  • An athletic coach, athletic administrator, or athletic director employed by any public or private school that provides any combination of instruction for kindergarten or grades 1 to 12

  • Any other employees and persons working on the behalf of school districts, county

  • offices of education, state special schools and diagnostic centers operated by the State Department of Education, and charter schools

Child Care Providers

  • Licensee of a licensed community care facility

  • Administrator of a licensed community care facility

  • Employee of a licensed community care facility

  • Licensee of a licensed child day care facility

  • Administrator of a licensed child day care facility

  • Employee of a licensed child day care facility

Medical Professionals

  • Licensed Nurses

  • Nursing Students

  • Doctors

  • Medical Students

  • Paramedics

  • EMT’s

  • Dentists

  • Chiropractors

  • Alternative Health Practitioners

  • Physical Therapists

  • Mental and Social Health Workers

  • Social workers

  • Social worker trainees and interns

  • Marriage counselors

Family and Child Counselors

  • School counselors

  • Unlicensed counseling trainees and interns

  • Psychologists

  • Psychological assistants

  • Psychological interns

  • Alcohol and drug counselors

  • Law Enforcement

  • Probation officer or parole officer

  • District attorney investigator, inspector or family support officer

  • Peace officer

  • Employee of the police department, county sheriff’s department, county probation officer

  • Employee or volunteer of a Court Appointed Special Advocates program

Clergy

  • Clergy member

  • Custodian of records of a clergy member

Volunteers

  • Volunteer teacher’s aide, instructional aide or teacher’s assistant of any public or private school

  • Volunteers at child day camps

  • Volunteers at Head Start Programs

  • Volunteers at youth centers, youth recreation programs, or youth service organizations

  • Volunteer firefighters

  • Volunteer animal control and humane society workers

  • Volunteers at a church, template or recognized denomination or organization

  • Volunteers of a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) program

Other Professionals

  • Commercial Computer Technicians

  • Paid Athletic Coaches

  • Administrator, or Director of a Public or Private Organization

  • Public assistance worker

  • Employee of a child care institution

  • Firefighter, except for volunteer firefighters

  • Physician, surgeon, psychiatrist, dentist, resident, intern, podiatrist, chiropractor, licensed nurse, dental hygienist, optometrist

  • Emergency medical technician I or II, paramedic

  • State or county public health employee who treats a minor for any condition.

  • Coroner

  • Medical examiner, or any other person who performs autopsies

  • Commercial film and photographic print processor

  • Child visitation monitor

  • Animal control officer or humane society officer

  • Human Resources employees of a business with five or more employees that employs minors, whose duties include accepting complaints of misconduct

  • Supervisor employees of a business with five or more employees that employs minors, whose duties require direct contact with, and supervision of, minors’ duties in the workplace

  • Administrator, employee, or regular volunteer of a youth service organization