Sentences with phrase «prevention of child maltreatment»

primary prevention of child maltreatment.

Addendum to «population - based prevention of child maltreatment: The U.S. Triple P system population trial».

To date, SafeCare, an evidence - based parent training program for the prevention of child maltreatment, has been adapted for use in Belarus, the United Kingdom, Spain, Canada, Israel, and Australia.

The Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities completed its nearly three years of work today with a 150 - page report that admits from the very beginning that it discovered little evidence that existing programs and strategies were working in the prevention of child maltreatment fatalities.

The SafeCare model is an evidence - based parent training program for the prevention of child maltreatment.

, Community prevention of child maltreatment (pp. 9 - 28).

SafeCare: Historical perspective and dynamic development of an evidence - based scaled - up model for the prevention of child maltreatment.

The mission of Peaceful Households is to provide culturally respectful, child - centered education, resources and support for the prevention of child maltreatment for the public and professionals.

Preventing Child Maltreatment: A Guide to Taking Action and Generating Evidence (PDF - 868 KB) World Health Organization & International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (2006) A guide to assist countries to design and deliver programs for the prevention of child maltreatment by parents and caregivers.

Research on child maltreatment has increased over the past 15 years and meta - analyses and reviews of the literature on the effectiveness of home visiting programs to prevent child maltreatment exist.10, 11,12 However, until recently there was not a wide ranging systematic review of the evidence on home visiting.7, 13,14,15,16 An effort launched in 2009 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness (HomVEE), filled this gap by providing a systematic review of the early childhood home visiting research with particular attention to its applicability to the prevention of child maltreatment.

This directory lists and briefly describes organizations that provide direct services and consultation for the prevention of child maltreatment.

Partners reviewed literature and talked to hundreds of parents and professionals to identify principles, strategies and data - driven outcomes for the prevention of child maltreatment.

«Among youth, suicide ranks high as a cause of death, and is often preceded by childhood trauma, bullying or other abuse,» he said, calling prevention of child maltreatment essential.

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Gundersen National Child Protection Training Center (Gundersen NCPTC) works to end all forms of child maltreatment through education, training and prevention while advocating for and serving children, adult survivors and communiChild Protection Training Center (Gundersen NCPTC) works to end all forms of child maltreatment through education, training and prevention while advocating for and serving children, adult survivors and communichild maltreatment through education, training and prevention while advocating for and serving children, adult survivors and communities.

Child maltreatment harms people and society, contributing to costly long — term health problems ranging from heart disease and obesity to depression and anxiety, making this type of prevention study critical.»

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.

For example, a review on prevention of maltreatment and associated impairment concluded that programs delivered by paraprofessional home visitors were not effective in reducing child protection reports or associated impairments whereas those delivered by nurses evidenced reductions in child maltreatment.8

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.

In the US, the Obama administration has funded a range of initiatives that require the use of evidence - based strategies in areas such as teen pregnancy prevention, home visiting, education and workforce innovation.2, 3 In the field of home visiting, an increasing number of programs have been rigorously evaluated and have demonstrated evidence of effectiveness in outcome domains such as parenting, maternal and child health, child development and school readiness, reductions in child maltreatment, and family economic self - sufficiency.4, 5,6

In many European countries, home visiting is a routine part of maternal and child health care, although the practice is less established in Canada and the United States.7 Over the past 30 years, one of the most promising prevention strategies targeted at decreasing rates of child maltreatment has been to provide health services, parenting education, and social support to pregnant women and families with young children in their own homes.

Another implication is that prevention strategies should emphasize emotional abuse, a widespread cruelty that is far less punishable than other types of child maltreatment.»

Such protective measures should, as appropriate, include effective procedures for the establishment of social programmes to provide necessary support for the child and for those who have the care of the child, as well as for other forms of prevention and for identification, reporting, referral, investigation, treatment and follow - up of instances of child maltreatment described heretofore, and, as appropriate, for judicial involvement.

In 2014, the Colorado Department of Human Services Office of Early Childhood, in partnership with Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago and the Children's Trust of South Carolina, countless state and local agencies and partners began working together to design a framework to serve as a national model for the prevention of maltreatment.

Predictors of Client Engagement and Attrition in Home - Based Child Maltreatment Prevention Services Damashek, Doughty, Ware, & Silovsky (2010) Child Maltreatment, 16 (1) View Abstract Examines the relative influence of provider, program, and individual factors from the Integrated Theory of Parent Involvement as well as maternal and family demographic and risk variables in predicting service enrollment and completion in a home - based child maltreatment prevention service (SafeCare +) and a standard community care program (Services as UsChild Maltreatment Prevention Services Damashek, Doughty, Ware, & Silovsky (2010) Child Maltreatment, 16 (1) View Abstract Examines the relative influence of provider, program, and individual factors from the Integrated Theory of Parent Involvement as well as maternal and family demographic and risk variables in predicting service enrollment and completion in a home - based child maltreatment prevention service (SafeCare +) and a standard community care program (ServiceMaltreatment Prevention Services Damashek, Doughty, Ware, & Silovsky (2010) Child Maltreatment, 16 (1) View Abstract Examines the relative influence of provider, program, and individual factors from the Integrated Theory of Parent Involvement as well as maternal and family demographic and risk variables in predicting service enrollment and completion in a home - based child maltreatment prevention service (SafeCare +) and a standard community care program (Services as UsChild Maltreatment, 16 (1) View Abstract Examines the relative influence of provider, program, and individual factors from the Integrated Theory of Parent Involvement as well as maternal and family demographic and risk variables in predicting service enrollment and completion in a home - based child maltreatment prevention service (SafeCare +) and a standard community care program (ServiceMaltreatment, 16 (1) View Abstract Examines the relative influence of provider, program, and individual factors from the Integrated Theory of Parent Involvement as well as maternal and family demographic and risk variables in predicting service enrollment and completion in a home - based child maltreatment prevention service (SafeCare +) and a standard community care program (Services as Uschild maltreatment prevention service (SafeCare +) and a standard community care program (Servicemaltreatment prevention service (SafeCare +) and a standard community care program (Services as Usual).

Mental health of mothers and their premature infants for the prevention of child abuse and maltreatment

It should be noted, however, that Joanne Klevens and Daniel Whittaker conclude that many child abuse prevention programs that address a broad range of risk factors have not been carefully evaluated and that those that have been evaluated have generally been found to have little effect on child maltreatment or its risk factors.33

Fewer explicitly aim at preventing child maltreatment, although prevention is certainly a secondary objective of many early intervention efforts such as the Nurse - Family Partnership.

The field of child maltreatment prevention is undergoing a transformation.

This same survey revealed that 10 % to 20 % of toddlers and 50 % of teenagers experience severe aggression (eg, cursing, threatening to send the child away, calling the child dumb or such other belittling names).17 Therefore, prevention of psychological maltreatment may be the most important work of the pediatrician.

Goals of these programs include improved pregnancy outcomes, prevention of maltreatment and neglect, enhanced parent - child interactions, early identification of delays, and improved developmental trajectories.

For example, a review on prevention of maltreatment and associated impairment concluded that programs delivered by paraprofessional home visitors were not effective in reducing child protection reports or associated impairments whereas those delivered by nurses evidenced reductions in child maltreatment.8

The high prevalence and serious consequences of child maltreatment point to the importance of effective prevention and treatment programs.

Success Stories From PREVENT: Building Capacity for Child Maltreatment Prevention PREVENT Institute Describes examples of successful multidisciplinary efforts from across the country to plan, implement, and evaluate prevention strategies.

Few prevention programs have been rigorously evaluated, and only a few have proven effective.60, 61 Health - care based prevention programs, including parent education programs to reduce rates of abusive head trauma, and improving physician ambulatory care practices to help families decrease risk factors for child maltreatment have shown good initial results, but require further evaluation.62, 63 Specific intensive home visitation programs such as nurse home visiting programs for first - time mothers have proven to be both clinically and cost effective in preventing maltreatment.64, 65 However, a program of nurse home visitation has been found ineffective as a treatment model for abusive and neglectful families, highlighting the importance of primary prevention, as well as the need to rigorously evaluate potential treatments for abusive families.66 Child welfare services are historically structured as short - term interventions that monitor families for recidivism, provide parenting education and assist with referrals to community - based servchild maltreatment have shown good initial results, but require further evaluation.62, 63 Specific intensive home visitation programs such as nurse home visiting programs for first - time mothers have proven to be both clinically and cost effective in preventing maltreatment.64, 65 However, a program of nurse home visitation has been found ineffective as a treatment model for abusive and neglectful families, highlighting the importance of primary prevention, as well as the need to rigorously evaluate potential treatments for abusive families.66 Child welfare services are historically structured as short - term interventions that monitor families for recidivism, provide parenting education and assist with referrals to community - based servChild welfare services are historically structured as short - term interventions that monitor families for recidivism, provide parenting education and assist with referrals to community - based services.

Child maltreatment is a significant public health and social welfare problem, particularly in high - income countries1 and effective methods of prevention have begun to be identified during the past two decades.

Family Risk as a Predictor of Initial Engagement and Follow - Through in a Universal Nurse Home Visiting Program to Prevent Child Maltreatment Alonso - Marsden, Dodge, O'Donnell, Murphy, Sato, Christopoulos (2013) Child Abuse and Neglect, 37 (8) View Abstract Examines family demographic and infant health risk factors that predict engagement and follow - through in a universal home - based maltreatment prevention program for new mothers in Durham County, NorMaltreatment Alonso - Marsden, Dodge, O'Donnell, Murphy, Sato, Christopoulos (2013) Child Abuse and Neglect, 37 (8) View Abstract Examines family demographic and infant health risk factors that predict engagement and follow - through in a universal home - based maltreatment prevention program for new mothers in Durham County, Normaltreatment prevention program for new mothers in Durham County, North Carolina.

Strategic Direction for Child Maltreatment Prevention: Preventing Child Maltreatment Through the Promotion of Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships Between Children and Caregivers (PDF - 280 KB) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2009) Describes a strategy for child maltreatment prevention organized around four areas of public health research and practice: measuring impact, creating and evaluating new approaches to prevention, applying and adapting effective practices, and building community readiChild Maltreatment Prevention: Preventing Child Maltreatment Through the Promotion of Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships Between Children and Caregivers (PDF - 280 KB) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2009) Describes a strategy for child maltreatment prevention organized around four areas of public health research and practice: measuring impact, creating and evaluating new approaches to prevention, applying and adapting effective practices, and building communitMaltreatment Prevention: Preventing Child Maltreatment Through the Promotion of Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships Between Children and Caregivers (PDF - 280 KB) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2009) Describes a strategy for child maltreatment prevention organized around four areas of public health research and practice: measuring impact, creating and evaluating new approaches to prevention, applying and adapting effective practices, and building community readiChild Maltreatment Through the Promotion of Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships Between Children and Caregivers (PDF - 280 KB) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2009) Describes a strategy for child maltreatment prevention organized around four areas of public health research and practice: measuring impact, creating and evaluating new approaches to prevention, applying and adapting effective practices, and building communitMaltreatment Through the Promotion of Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships Between Children and Caregivers (PDF - 280 KB) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2009) Describes a strategy for child maltreatment prevention organized around four areas of public health research and practice: measuring impact, creating and evaluating new approaches to prevention, applying and adapting effective practices, and building community readichild maltreatment prevention organized around four areas of public health research and practice: measuring impact, creating and evaluating new approaches to prevention, applying and adapting effective practices, and building communitmaltreatment prevention organized around four areas of public health research and practice: measuring impact, creating and evaluating new approaches to prevention, applying and adapting effective practices, and building community readiness.

In many European countries, home visiting is a routine part of maternal and child health care, although the practice is less established in Canada and the United States.7 Over the past 30 years, one of the most promising prevention strategies targeted at decreasing rates of child maltreatment has been to provide health services, parenting education, and social support to pregnant women and families with young children in their own homes.

The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses, tested with a primarily white sample, produced a 48 percent treatment - control difference in the overall rates of substantiated rates of child abuse and neglect (irrespective of risk) and an 80 percent difference for families in which the mothers were low - income and unmarried at registration.21 Corresponding rates of child maltreatment were too low to serve as a viable outcome in a subsequent trial of the program in a large sample of urban African - Americans, 20 but program effects on children's health - care encounters for serious injuries and ingestions at child age 2 and reductions in childhood mortality from preventable causes at child age 9 were consistent with the prevention of abuse and neglect.20, 22

This bulletin provides child welfare workers and related professionals with information on the intersection of substance use disorders and child maltreatment and describes strategies for prevention, intervention, and treatment, including examples of effective programs and practices.

Given the high prevalence of child maltreatment and the serious consequences in terms of its impact on the lives of the individuals concerned, their families, and society more generally, it is important that we identify effective methods of prevention and intervention, and there are some suggestions that a public health approach is now needed.27 Although there is limited research available in terms of what works to prevent child maltreatment, there have been significant gains over the past 20 years in terms of the development of new approaches.

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 famiChild 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 aMaltreatment 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 fChildren 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 famichild abuse by integrating best practices for child maltreatment prevention activities into their daily work with children and famichild maltreatment prevention activities into their daily work with children amaltreatment prevention activities into their daily work with children and fchildren and families.

Providers reported that they were surprised by the breadth and depth of need for prevention services that could reduce the risk of child maltreatment, including:

Maltreatment of Children With Disabilities Hibbard, Desch, & American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect and Council on Children With Disabilities Pediatrics, 119 (5), 2007 Provides education to pediatricians regarding early recognition and intervention of child maltreatment of children with disabilities as well as ways to facilitateMaltreatment of Children With Disabilities Hibbard, Desch, & American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect and Council on Children With Disabilities Pediatrics, 119 (5), 2007 Provides education to pediatricians regarding early recognition and intervention of child maltreatment of children with disabilities as well as ways to facilitate preChildren With Disabilities Hibbard, Desch, & American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect and Council on Children With Disabilities Pediatrics, 119 (5), 2007 Provides education to pediatricians regarding early recognition and intervention of child maltreatment of children with disabilities as well as ways to facilitate prevenChild Abuse and Neglect and Council on Children With Disabilities Pediatrics, 119 (5), 2007 Provides education to pediatricians regarding early recognition and intervention of child maltreatment of children with disabilities as well as ways to facilitate preChildren With Disabilities Pediatrics, 119 (5), 2007 Provides education to pediatricians regarding early recognition and intervention of child maltreatment of children with disabilities as well as ways to facilitate prevenchild maltreatment of children with disabilities as well as ways to facilitatemaltreatment of children with disabilities as well as ways to facilitate prechildren with disabilities as well as ways to facilitate prevention.

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 & Negchild 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 & Negchild 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 & NegChild 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.

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 developChild 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 developchild maltreatment prevention services, measuring protective factors in five areas: family functioning / resiliency, social support, concrete support, nurturing and attachment, and knowledge of parenting / child developchild development.

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 negChild 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 negchild 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 negchild abuse and neglect.

Home Visitation and Maltreatment Prevention Publications Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago Provides links to a variety of home visitation and child maltreatment prevention publications, including issue briefs, reports and articles, ongoing research, and events and prMaltreatment Prevention Publications Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago Provides links to a variety of home visitation and child maltreatment prevention publications, including issue briefs, reports and articles, ongoing research, and events and prmaltreatment prevention publications, including issue briefs, reports and articles, ongoing research, and events and presentations.

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 effChild 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 effchild 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.