Lumen Health and Psychological Services

All staff here at Lumen Health and Psychological Services Inc take privacy and security with the utmost seriousness. That includes the clients we serve and vulnerable populations such as children, at risk adult and seniors. As Mandated Reporters, based on the provided guideless of our professional licensing organizations and the state of California, we are required to make a CPS report. Sometimes the events are clear cut and sometimes not. I assure you that in no case is it an easy event for a provider to follow through with as it is never a goal to make any situation more difficult. However, with the requirements put on us, there is often not a choice in the matter and is illegal to not report a case when there is a valid concern.
Here are some details pertaining to this mater and Penal Code §§ 11166; 11165.7
A report is required when the following circumstances apply:
A mandated reporter, in their professional capacity or within the scope of their employment, has knowledge of or observes a child whom the reporter knows or reasonably suspects is the victim of abuse or neglect.
For the purposes of this article, 'reasonable suspicion' means that it is objectively reasonable for a person to entertain a suspicion based upon facts that could cause a reasonable person in a like position, drawing, when appropriate, on their training and experience, to suspect child abuse or neglect. 'Reasonable suspicion' does not require certainty that child abuse or neglect has occurred, nor does it require a specific medical indication of child abuse or neglect; any 'reasonable suspicion' is sufficient. For the purposes of this article, the pregnancy of a minor does not, in and of itself, constitute a basis for a reasonable suspicion of sexual abuse.