The information packet upon which this course is based was written to
support child maltreatment prevention efforts by describing strategies and activities that promote protective factors.
Home - Based Intervention for High - Risk Rural Families: A Randomized Clinical Trial Lwin (2012) McGill University, School of Social Work, Centre for Research on Children and Families, Canadian Child Welfare Research Portal View Abstract Illustrates the effectiveness of using a home - based
child maltreatment prevention program for families in rural communities struggling with substance use, intimate partner violence, and depression, factors that increase the risk of child abuse and neglect.
Community Planning at Work Thanks to the support of the CDHS Office of Early Childhood and the Zoma Foundation, ten communities in Colorado will be receiving financial support and technical assistance to create the first
local child maltreatment prevention plans using the framework, but we hope all communities will utilize this tool.
With Early Milestones Colorado's help, communities have been engaged in an eight - month local participatory planning process to develop local
child maltreatment prevention plans and promote family well - being by completing the following tasks, as outlined in the framework:
Protective Factors Survey FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community - Based Child Abuse Prevention (2008) Offers a self - administered survey for use with caregivers
receiving child maltreatment prevention services, measuring protective factors in five areas: family functioning / resiliency, social support, concrete support, nurturing and attachment, and knowledge of parenting / child development.
This issue brief looks at how
child maltreatment prevention efforts have grown and changed substantially over the last half century and discusses the importance of prevention as a critical component of the nation's child protection system.
Practice Guideline: Integrating Prevention Into the Work of Child Maltreatment Professionals American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children Practice Guidelines, 2010 View Abstract Presents guidelines designed to assist professionals in going beyond reporting child abuse by integrating best practices for
child maltreatment prevention activities into their daily work with children and families.
Partnering For Prevention (PDF - 2,447 KB) Grayson (2012) Virginia Child Protection Newsletter, 94 Virginia Department of Social Services & James Madison University Department of Psychology
Examines child maltreatment prevention through the lens of community partners in prevention and specifically explores the role of the media, charitable foundations, and other business partners in financing and promoting prevention efforts.
State and federal funding provides families throughout Georgia with services such as parent support programs, parent training, screening and identification tools, training opportunities, high - quality home visitations, and primary and
secondary child maltreatment prevention.
FRIENDS Protective Factors Survey Family Resource Information, Education, and Network Development Service (2017) Explains an evidence - based evaluation tool for use with families
receiving child maltreatment prevention services.
Prior to joining JBA, Ms. Filene was a Research Fellow for the Center for Disease Control, working on replication studies, a meta - analysis of parent training programs, and providing evaluation technical assistance to statewide effectiveness trials of
child maltreatment prevention programs.
Home Visitation and Maltreatment Prevention Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago Offers articles, publications, and current research being conducted to
support child maltreatment prevention and home visitation initiatives.
Initial Findings from a Randomized, Controlled Trial of Healthy Families Massachusetts: Early Program Impacts on Young Mothers» Parenting (PDF - 576 KB) Easterbrooks, Jacobs, Bartlett, Goldberg, Contreras, & Kotake (2012) Offers an evaluation on Healthy Families Massachusetts, a statewide
child maltreatment prevention home - visiting program for first - time young parents, that examined the program's impact on child maltreatment and parenting in a sample of young mothers.
The Colorado Department of Human Services and ZOMA Foundation recently awarded grants to fifteen communities to support their efforts to develop
local child maltreatment prevention plans.
Collaboration FRIENDS National Center (2018) Provides information and resources on Community - Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP) programs and creating effective partnerships
for child maltreatment prevention.
A focus on children prenatal / birth to 5 years and
child maltreatment prevention, intervention and treatment has been part of the Center's programming since its inception.
Given the limited rigorous research evidence on home visiting's effectiveness to prevent child maltreatment, one potential impact of using an approach like Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness, which attaches state funding to the quality of the evidence, may be to increase the amount and quality of
the child maltreatment prevention research conducted globally.
Course objectives focus on understanding the relationship between financial stability and
child maltreatment prevention, understanding the parent's role as a provider, available resources, and strategies for ways to connect families to resources in communities.
In the emerging field of
child maltreatment prevention, public health approaches to prevent child abuse are novel but necessary, the director of the University of South Carolina's Parenting and Family Research Center, Professor Ron Prinz, writes in a recent edition of the journal, Child Abuse & Neglect.
Professor Prinz argues that the parenting - focused aspects of
child maltreatment prevention can extend beyond the original goal, including the prevention of childhood social, emotional, and behavioural problems; the reduction of risk for adverse adolescent outcomes (such as substance use, delinquency and academic failure); and parental engagement for school readiness.
Child maltreatment prevention: Past, present, and future.
Jill Filene, M.P.H., has 20 years of experience in applied research, program evaluation, and TA to home visiting,
child maltreatment prevention, and early childhood programs.
Child maltreatment prevention is a critical component of the nation's child protection system.
Project SafeCare: Issues in replication of an ecobehavioral model of
child maltreatment prevention.