• Attorneys.
• Audiologists.
• Child care workers.
• Children services personnel.
• Coroners.
• Day care personnel.
• Dentists.
• Health care professionals.
• Nurses.
• Peace officers, including police, sheriff's deputies, and highway patrol officers.
• Physicians, including hospital interns and residents.
• Podiatrists.
• Psychiatrists.
• School authorities, employees, and teachers.
• Social workers.
• Speech pathologists.
• Agent of a county humane society.

The Ohio Revised Code Section 2151.421 clearly removes the option of choice for the above professionals.

What is required of a Mandated Reporter?

If you come into contact with a child who has suffered, or faces a threat of any physical or mental wound, injury, disability, or other condition that reasonably indicates abuse or neglect, you must immediately file a report.

This applies to any:

• Child under 18.
• Person under 21 with a developmental disability or physical impairment.

Even if you don't know for certain that abuse is occurring, you are still required to report any fact-based suspicion. If a reasonable person in similar circumstances, presented with the same facts would suspect abuse, it is your legal responsibility to report.

How to Report

File a report online now.

Call the 24-hour Child Abuse Hotline at 216-696-KIDS (5437). 

Email Protecting-Cuyahoga-Kids@jfs.ohio.gov.

In-person referrals can be made at the Jane Edna Hunter Building, 3955 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115