2022 Reports

2022 Annual Report

Date: 1/31/23
Submitted by: Office of the Child Advocate

The Child Advocate released the 2022 Annual Report, a compilation of office activities, special reviews and response to citizen concerns about NH children.

Report to Oversight Commission on Children's Services

Date: 09/16/2022
Submitted by: The Office of the Child Advocate

Report to Oversight Commission on Children's Services

Date: 10/21/2022
Submitted by: The Office of the Child Advocate

Report to Oversight Commission on Children's Services

Date: 11/18/2022
Submitted by: The Office of the Child Advocate

Office of the Child Advocate Issue Statement: Transitioning the Sununu Youth Services Center

Date: 10/7/2022
Submitted by: The Office of the Child Advocate

Travel Report: The Office of the Child Advocate Traveled to Arkansas

Date: 07/27-29/22
Submitted by: The Office of the Child Advocate

Office of the Child Advocate's 2022-2025 Strategic Plan

Date: 3/23/2022
Submitted by: The Office of the Child Advocate

Issue Briefing Case Number 2022-01-IS01 - Critical Incident Review: Process & Obligations, a response to multiple inquiries in the case of a missing child

Date: 2/2/2022
Submitted by: The Office of the Child Advocate

2021 Reports

Safety Science, Innovation, and Change in a State Child Welfare System: A Case Study

Date: 2021
Submitted by: James M. Nyce, Noel Hengelbrok, and Scott Modell

System Review 2020-01 Review of Complaints about Nashua Children's Home

Date: 12/7/2021
Submitted by: The Office of the Child Advocate

2021 Annual Report

The Child Advocate released the 2021 Annual Report, a compilation of office activities, special reviews and response to citizen concerns about NH children.

Date: 12/2/2021
Submitted by: The Office of the Child Advocate

Addendum to 2019-01 System Review :Restraining and Secluding Children

Date: 04/16/2021
Submitted by: The Office of the Child Advocate

Summary of 2020 System Learning Reviews : Opportunities to Improve and Build on Strengths of the Child Welfare System Through Examination of Critical Incidents.

The Office of the Child Advocate released a report summarizing reviews of three critical incidents and one complaint involving children in the custody of the Division for Children, Youth and Families.

Date: 4/5/2021
Submitted by: The Office of the Child Advocate

2020 Reports

2020 Annual Report

The Child Advocate released the 2020 Annual Report, a compilation of office activities, special reviews and response to citizen concerns about NH children.

Date: 11/13/2020
Submitted by: The Office of the Child Advocate

Briefing on the Office of the Child Advocate

System Review Briefing 2020-01

Issue Briefing Case Number 2020-01-IS01

COVID-19 Quarantine for Children in the Custody of DCYF: A Community-based Solution.

Date: 07/10/2020
Submitted by: The Office of the Child Advocate

DHHS Response to OCA Annual Report

The Child Advocate released the 2019 Annual Report, a compilation of office activities, special reviews and response to citizen concerns about NH children.

Date: 02/14/2020
Submitted by: Department of Health and Human Services

2019 Annual Report

The Child Advocate released the 2019 Annual Report, a compilation of office activities, special reviews and response to citizen concerns about NH children.

Date: 02/14/2020
Submitted by: The Office of the Child Advocate

System Review 2019-01 Restraining and Secluding Children

Date: 01/09/2020
Submitted by: The Office of the Child Advocate

System Review 2018-01 DCYF Enhanced Response to Substance Exposed Infants

November 14, 2019 Notice of 2019-01 System Review Briefing Extension

System Learning Review Statement Response

2019 System Learning Review Summary Report

The OCA's first report using safety science examining systemic influences on case outcomes


2019 Reports

Date: 10/30/2019
Submitted by: The Office of the Child Advocate

October 24, 2019 Notice of 2018-01 System Review Briefing Extension

System Review 2019-01 Restraint and Seclusion: Practice and Reporting

September 4, 2019 Notice of 2018-01 System Review Briefing Extension

2018-01 System Review Briefing Extension

Issue Briefing Case Number 2019-04-IS01

Parents Incarcerated in the New Hampshire State Prison System

Date: 04/30/2019
Submitted by: The Office of the Child Advocate

System Review 2018-01 Enhances Response

System Review 2018-01 Enhances Response: Substance Exposed Infants

Date: 03/26/2019
Submitted by: The Office of the Child Advocate

2018 Reports

OCA Response to DHHS Response of Annual Report

OCA Response to DHHS Response of Annual Report

Date: 01/16/2018
Submitted by: The Office of the Child Advocate

DHHS Response to OCA Annual Report

DHHS Response to OCA Annual Report

Date: 01/14/2018
Submitted by: Department of Health & Human Services

2018 Annual Report

The Office of the Child Advocate released its 2018 Annual Report with office activities, key findings and an assessment of the state of the state's child welfare and juvenile justice systems.

Date: 01/14/2018
Submitted by: The Office of the Child Advocate

2018 Child and Family Services Reviews Report

Final report from the US DHHS of key areas of New Hampshire’s child welfare programs and practice to ensure substantial conformity with the state plan requirements found in titles IV-B and IV-E of the Social Security Act.

Date: 7/26/2018
Submitted by: Department of Health & Human Services

Parental Substance Use in New Hampshire — Who Cares for the Children?

This brief examines parental substance use and who cares for children when their parents cannot.

Date: 6/5/2018
Submitted by: University of New Hampshire, Carsey School of Public Policy

Unlawful Use of Physical Restraint at Sununu Youth Services Center Manchester, NH

This report presents the results of an investigation the Disability Rights Center-NH (DRC) conducted into the physical restraint and injury of a child with disabilities held at the Sununu Youth Services Center (SYSC).

Date: 5/8/2018
Submitted by: Disability Rights Center — NH

2016 Reports

Quality Assurance Review of the Division for Children, Youth and Families

An independent review of DCYF Intake and assessment services submitted in 2016 that guides wide reforms in New Hampshire’s child welfare.

Date: 12/19/2016
Submitted by: The Center for the Support of Families (CSF)

Suggested Practices for Journalists Reporting on Child Abuse and Neglect

A guide for journalists reporting child abuse and neglect.

Date: 10/6/2016
Submitted by: The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)