Howard County Child Fatality Review (CFR)
When a child dies under the age of 18, a Child Fatality Review (CFR) team looks at what happened to prevent future deaths. CFR is a way for communities to improve understanding of how and why children die; to influence policies and programs to improve child health, safety, and protection to help save lives.
Howard County CFR is a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency review team that works together with other state and local review systems. The guiding principle is that the understanding of child deaths must be based on both qualitative and quantitative information from case reviews and observations.
Information about the Maryland Child Fatality Review may be found on the Maryland Department of Health (MDH) website.
When the CFR Meets
The Howard County CFR team meets quarterly (January, April, July, and October) on the last Wednesday of the month at 1:00 pm at the Health Department. While these meetings are subject to the Open Meetings Act and involve an open session at the beginning of each meeting, due to the confidentiality of the topics discussed, meetings are closed to the public shortly after convening.