METHOD & SOURCES · ATYKIDS SAFE
This page exists so that a parent, a professional or an institution can check where each recommendation comes from.
- Protocol version
- 1.0.0-draft
- Sources last checked
- 2026-08-22
- Countries covered
- 4
- Canadian provinces and territories
- 13 / 13
- US states and the District of Columbia
- 51 / 51
The common protocol
An element is kept in the common protocol only if it is recommended by at least two authorities from different countries. That is what separates it from a national recommendation exported abroad.
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Never shake a baby: it can cause serious or fatal brain injury.
- Ministère du Travail et des Solidarités · Syndrome du bébé secoué : une maltraitance qui peut être mortelle · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Public Health Agency of Canada · Your Guide to Postpartum Health and Caring for Your Baby · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Institut national de santé publique du Québec · Mieux vivre avec notre enfant · Les pleurs · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) · About Abusive Head Trauma · Checked on 2026-08-22
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When an adult feels they are losing control, stop the interaction with the baby.
- Ministère du Travail et des Solidarités · Syndrome du bébé secoué : une maltraitance qui peut être mortelle · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Public Health Agency of Canada · Your Guide to Postpartum Health and Caring for Your Baby · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Institut national de santé publique du Québec · Adaptation à la parentalité · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) · About Abusive Head Trauma · Checked on 2026-08-22
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Put the baby somewhere safe, for example their crib, on their back.
- Ministère du Travail et des Solidarités · Syndrome du bébé secoué : une maltraitance qui peut être mortelle · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Public Health Agency of Canada · Your Guide to Postpartum Health and Caring for Your Baby · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Institut national de santé publique du Québec · Mieux vivre avec notre enfant · Les pleurs · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Institut national de santé publique du Québec · Adaptation à la parentalité · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) · About Abusive Head Trauma · Checked on 2026-08-22
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Leave the room for a few minutes, long enough to regain your composure.
- Ministère du Travail et des Solidarités · Syndrome du bébé secoué : une maltraitance qui peut être mortelle · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Public Health Agency of Canada · Your Guide to Postpartum Health and Caring for Your Baby · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Institut national de santé publique du Québec · Mieux vivre avec notre enfant · Les pleurs · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Institut national de santé publique du Québec · Adaptation à la parentalité · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) · About Abusive Head Trauma · Checked on 2026-08-22
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Calming yourself comes before calming the crying; go back regularly to check that the baby is safe, without picking them up until you have regained your composure.
- Ministère du Travail et des Solidarités · Syndrome du bébé secoué : une maltraitance qui peut être mortelle · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Institut national de santé publique du Québec · Mieux vivre avec notre enfant · Les pleurs · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Institut national de santé publique du Québec · Adaptation à la parentalité · Checked on 2026-08-22
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Ask someone to take over: a relative, a person you trust, or professional help.
- Ministère du Travail et des Solidarités · Syndrome du bébé secoué : une maltraitance qui peut être mortelle · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Public Health Agency of Canada · Your Guide to Postpartum Health and Caring for Your Baby · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Institut national de santé publique du Québec · Adaptation à la parentalité · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) · About Abusive Head Trauma · Checked on 2026-08-22
The instructions we write ourselves
You read these sentences inside the flows. They do not come from the common protocol: each rests on a single authority, named here, whose page you can open. An instruction carried by one agency is not an international consensus, and we do not present it as one.
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Get medical help straight away.
- New York State Department of Health · Shaken Baby Syndrome Prevention (birth to 4 years) · Checked on 2026-08-22
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Have the baby examined now. Thinking they may have been shaken is reason enough.
- Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) · Never Shake a Baby (CFS 1050-81) · Checked on 2026-08-22
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Tell the clinicians what happened. They need it to care for the baby properly.
- Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) · Never Shake a Baby (CFS 1050-81) · Checked on 2026-08-22
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This is the right number when a child is being harmed. Call it first: child protection comes after.
- GIP France Enfance Protégée (SNATED) · 119 · Besoin d'aide · Checked on 2026-08-22
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You do not have to be sure. Assessing is their job, not yours.
- Gouvernement du Québec · Protection de la jeunesse · Obligation de signaler une situation au DPJ · Checked on 2026-08-22
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Call first. You can write down what you saw and heard afterwards.
- Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) · Report Abuse · Checked on 2026-08-22
The local layer
Reporting numbers, portals and services belong to each jurisdiction. They are never inferred from a neighbouring territory.
France
- France · 119 · Allô Enfance en danger · Checked on 2026-08-22
Canada
- Alberta · Child Intervention Provincial Intake Line · Checked on 2026-08-22
- British Columbia · Provincial Centralized Screening (Ministry of Children and Family Development) · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Manitoba · Designated Intake Agency · province-wide intake · Checked on 2026-08-22
- New Brunswick · Social Development · Child Protection · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Newfoundland and Labrador · Child Protection and In Care Division · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Nova Scotia · Child and Family Wellbeing · provincial intake · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Ontario · Children's aid society (local) · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Prince Edward Island · Child Protection Services · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Quebec · Direction de la protection de la jeunesse (DPJ) · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Saskatchewan · Ministry of Social Services · child protection · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Northwest Territories · Child and Family Services (Health and Social Services) · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Nunavut · Department of Family Services · child and youth protection · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Yukon · Family and Children's Services · Checked on 2026-08-22
United States
- Alabama · County Department of Human Resources (DHR) · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Alaska · Office of Children's Services (OCS) · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Arizona · Department of Child Safety (DCS) · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Arkansas · Arkansas Child Abuse Hotline · Checked on 2026-08-22
- California · County child protective services (CDSS directory) · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Colorado · Colorado Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Connecticut · Department of Children and Families · Careline · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Delaware · Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families (DSCYF) · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Florida · Florida Abuse Hotline (Department of Children and Families) · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Georgia · Division of Family and Children Services · Centralized Intake · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Hawaii · Child Welfare Services Branch (Department of Human Services) · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Idaho · Idaho Department of Health and Welfare · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Illinois · Illinois Department of Children and Family Services · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Indiana · Indiana Department of Child Services · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Iowa · Iowa Department of Health and Human Services · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Kansas · Kansas Protection Report Center (DCF) · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Kentucky · Cabinet for Health and Family Services · Child Protection Branch · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Louisiana · Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Maine · Maine Office of Child and Family Services · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Maryland · Local department of social services (DHS) · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Massachusetts · Department of Children and Families · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Michigan · Michigan Department of Health and Human Services · Centralized Intake · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Minnesota · County or Tribal Nation child protection agency · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Mississippi · Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Missouri · Missouri Children's Division · Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Montana · Child and Family Services Division (DPHHS) · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Nebraska · Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Nevada · County child welfare agency / DCFS · Checked on 2026-08-22
- New Hampshire · Division for Children, Youth and Families · Central Intake · Checked on 2026-08-22
- New Jersey · State Central Registry (Division of Child Protection and Permanency) · Checked on 2026-08-22
- New Mexico · Statewide Central Intake (CYFD) · Checked on 2026-08-22
- New York · Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment · Checked on 2026-08-22
- North Carolina · County department of social services · Checked on 2026-08-22
- North Dakota · Child Protection Program (HHS North Dakota) · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Ohio · Ohio Department of Children and Youth · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Oklahoma · Oklahoma Human Services · Abuse and Neglect Hotline · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Oregon · Oregon Department of Human Services · Child Welfare · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Pennsylvania · ChildLine (Department of Human Services) · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Rhode Island · Department of Children, Youth and Families · Checked on 2026-08-22
- South Carolina · South Carolina Department of Social Services · Checked on 2026-08-22
- South Dakota · Division of Child Protection Services · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Tennessee · Tennessee Department of Children's Services · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Texas · Texas Department of Family and Protective Services · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Utah · Division of Child and Family Services · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Vermont · Family Services Division (DCF) · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Virginia · Virginia Department of Social Services · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Washington · Department of Children, Youth, and Families · Checked on 2026-08-22
- West Virginia · Bureau for Social Services · Centralized Intake · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Wisconsin · County or tribal child protective services · Checked on 2026-08-22
- Wyoming · Wyoming Department of Family Services · Checked on 2026-08-22
- District of Columbia · Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) · Checked on 2026-08-22
Costa Rica
- Costa Rica · Patronato Nacional de la Infancia (PANI) · Checked on 2026-08-22
No AI in the critical paths
The three emergency paths are written entirely in advance. No language model is called, no web search is run, and nothing you type leaves your device.
Stated limits
An identified gap is better than an invented fact. Here are the ones we declare.
- FR · Un horaire fiable pour la ligne Allô Parents Bébé : les sources officielles se contredisent. L'État publie « du lundi au vendredi de 10h à 13h et de 14h à 18h », sans exception. L'association qui opère la ligne publie, sur une même page, ces mêmes horaires dans un bloc et « hormis le jeudi : ouvert uniquement de 14h à 18h » dans un autre. Nous ne tranchons pas entre deux sources officielles qui se contredisent. L'interface renvoie à l'horaire publié par le service au lieu d'en figer un, et cette ligne n'est plus proposée avant les numéros joignables en permanence. Envoyer un parent en détresse un jeudi matin vers une ligne fermée est un échec dur.
- CR · Les horaires exacts de la ligne 1147 du PANI. La page officielle consultée publie le numéro sans plage horaire exploitable, et nous ne fabriquons pas un horaire. L'interface renvoie à l'horaire publié sur la page officielle du service au lieu d'en afficher un.
- CR · Une recommandation costaricienne formulant explicitement la conduite à tenir face aux pleurs quand l'adulte perd le contrôle. Les sources PANI consultées portent le cadre de protection et les canaux de signalement, pas la conduite du caregiver. Le Costa Rica affiche le protocole commun avec sa provenance institutionnelle réelle, jamais attribué à une autorité costaricienne.
Updates
Official pages are re-checked before any production release, and the verification date is shown with every source.
No institutional endorsement
None of the institutions quoted is a partner of AtyKids, validates AtyKids SAFE or recommends it. They are quoted as public sources.