But in the vast majority of school districts, the
data on child maltreatment and foster care is not linked to a child's educational records.
In addition to assessing the impact of home - visitation
services on child maltreatment, it is also important to specify for whom and under what conditions these services are effective.
Cicchetti D. «An Odyssey of Discovery: Lessons Learned through Three Decades of
Research on Child Maltreatment», American Psychologist (Nov. 2004): Vol.
And while he highlighted a number of programs that had been shown to
impact on child maltreatment statistics, he said the Triple P — Positive Parenting Program was the only one that could be delivered to an entire community, in the way successful public health campaigns had been.
Information Packet: Prevention of Repeat Maltreatment: Addressing Contributing Factors Based in an Ecological Model (PDF - 73 KB) Boyd (2009) Presents
statistics on child maltreatment recurrence and summarizes a model for working with families to prevent repeat maltreatment.
The existing body of rigorous research has been conducted with relatively small sample sizes that do not allow for assessment of the impact of home
visiting on child maltreatment for important race / ethnic, linguistic and poverty subgroups.
In many instances, the quality of the research is not sufficient to draw conclusions about the effects of a given
model on child maltreatment.8
Statistics
on child maltreatment in the UK indicates that 1 in 14 children aged 11 — 17 (6.9 %) report being physically abused by a parent or guardian during childhood (Radford et al., 2011).
Our board members have authored numerous scholarly
works on child maltreatment, have served as expert witnesses in courts of law, have testified before congress, and have taught thousands of professionals throughout the United States and many parts of the world.
For example, numerous studies
on child maltreatment find strong associations between child neglect and poverty (Sedlack & Broadhurst, 1996; Eckenrode et al., 1998).
Strategies for Agency Collaboration and Community Capacity Building Integrated Care Community
Effects on Child Maltreatment and Strategies at the Community Level Utilizing Technology Early Learning Communities Community Norms Change
Daro was a member of the Institute of Medicine's
Committee on Child Maltreatment Research, Policy and Practice for the Next Decade, which provides research recommendations aimed at improving the public policy and programmatic response to child maltreatment.
Whitaker's research has
focused on child maltreatment and intimate partner violence prevention, as well as implementation of evidence - based interventions.
«As home visiting programs go to scale, states should consider replicating this study using their administrative data and appropriate statistical methods to create a robust comparison group capable of generating rigorous findings regarding the effects of early intervention
efforts on child maltreatment rates,» said Dr. Deborah Daro, Senior Research Fellow at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.
[16] See: American Psychological Association (
Division on Child Maltreatment)[17], National Association of Social Workers [18](and its Utah Chapter [19]-RRB-, American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children [1], American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry [34], and American Psychiatric Association [20].
2011 — The final report of the Healthy Families New York RCT was published, furthering the evidence for HFA as a program that can make an
impact on child maltreatment.
The research represents one of the largest studies in the U.S. conducted to investigate the impact of home
visiting on child maltreatment, including nearly 8,000 families.
Child Maltreatment Facts at a Glance (PDF - 79 KB) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2014) Provides up - to - date data and
statistics on child maltreatment, including information on the characteristics of perpetrators.
School personnel should utilize data
on child maltreatment and / or foster care placement to identify students at risk of academic difficulties and provide support for these children.
2011 — The final report of the Healthy Families New York RCT was published, furthering the evidence for HFA as a program that can make an impact
on child maltreatment.
METHODS: Data
on child maltreatment were collected from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well - Being, a nationally representative sample of cases investigated or assessed by local Child Protective Services agencies between October 1999 and December 2000.
Epidemiological Perspectives on Maltreatment Prevention (PDF - 416 KB) Wulczyn The Future of Children, 19 (2), 2009 Describes and differentiates among the three primary sources of national data
on child maltreatment and explores how the data is used to plan and implement maltreatment programs.
In addition, 3 of the 14 models had impacts on maternal health, 6 of the 14 models had impacts on child health, and 5 of the 14 had impacts
on child maltreatment.
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.
, Handbook
on child maltreatment: Contemporary issues in research and policy series (pp. 281 - 300).
, APSAC handbook
on child maltreatment: Second edition (pp. 431 - 448).