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Evaluating Prevention Programs
Description: This website contains resources from the Child Welfare Information Gateway on evaluating child abuse prevention programs. Includes a toolkit, logic model builder, and ways to make the economic case for prevention programs.
Description: Prevent Child Abuse America's mission is to prevent the abuse and neglect of our nations children. This web site provides information about the prevention of child abuse and neglect, and how you can help.
Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect
Description: This website contains resources from the Child Welfare Information Gateway on child abuse prevention, protecting children from risk of abuse, and promoting healthy families. Includes information on supporting families, protective factors, public awareness, community activities, positive parenting, prevention programs, and more.
Description: The Safe Start Center is a national resource center designed to support the Safe Start Initiative. The Center works with national partners and a multidisciplinary group of experts to provide training and technical assistance aimed at child abuse/neglect prevention. The Safe Start Center is funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice.
Strengthening Families Through Early Care & Education
Description: This website from the Center for the Study of Social Policy provides a set of tools and strategies aimed at keeping families strong and reducing the incidence of child abuse and neglect. The site includes a Strengthening Families Self-Asssesment for Early Care and Education Centers; access to presentations, publications, and other tools for state initiatives and early care and education; a searchable database of Strengthening Families trainings; information on the Strengthening Families National Network; and news briefs.
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Author: Steinkraus, Anna; Nancy Potter; Christy Bianconi; June P. Mead
Description: Statistically significant increases were found in the mean comparison scores on skills, indicating that Parenting Skills Workshop Series (PSWS) is effective in teaching parenting skills.
Healthy Families America: Evaluation Information
Description: Contains information on the various evaluations including the location, dates, and design of the study and reference information.
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A Brief Synopsis of Child Sexual Abuse from Onset to Adult Life
Author: Direnfeld, Gary (34 more by this author)
Description: This article describes the process of childhood sexual abuse and impact on child, then adult functioning and concludes with how to help.
Abuse and Neglect of Children with Disabilities
Author: Baladerian, Nora
Description: This factsheet discusses the interrelationship between child abuse and neglect and disabilities. Pointing out that not only are children with disabilities at high risk for abuse and neglect, but that children can become disabled through abuse and neglect. She looks at methods of prevention and challenges to effective intervention, and makes strong recommendations for anyone working in the field with children.
Characteristics and Behavioral Indicators of Adults Who Molest Children
Description: This fact sheet from the Minnesota Department of Corrections outlines the characteristics of child molesters. It outlines common ways that an adult who molests children approaches the victim and what parents can do to encourage their children to discuss their true feelings so that they will be more likely to reveal any situations that could place any child at risk.
Child Abuse and Neglect: The Need for Courage
Author: Polonko, Karen
Description: This article discusses the prevalence of child abuse and the effects it may have on children.
Child Physical Abuse Fact Sheet
Description: This fact sheet provides facts on child abuse including what it is and how to tell if a child has been abused.
Description: This resource from the American Humane Association provides a research-based overview of child sexual abuse, what it is, how to prove it, what to look for if you suspect sexual abuse, and what you can do to help or report suspected abuse.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Description: Formerly the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families. A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Spanish language resources are available.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Description: The National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information was established in 1974 by the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to collect, organizes, and disseminates information on all aspects of child maltreatment.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Author: Simpson, A. (3 more by this author)
Description: The National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information provides both general resources and ones directed at professionals. Topics include ways to promote safe children and healthy families, an overview of child abuse and neglect, and tips on supporting families dealing with abuse and neglect issues.
Description: Children's Bureau Express is designed for professionals concerned with child abuse and neglect, child welfare, and adoption.
Creating Safety Zones for Child Care Providers 
Author: Reilly, Jackie (8 more by this author); Sally S. Martin, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension
Description: This fact sheet from Nevada Cooperative Extension addresses what caregivers and youth leaders can do to help prevent child abuse and protect themselves from false allegations.
Crisis Nursery Care: Respite for Children at Risk of Abuse and/or Neglect
Author: Hardin, Brenda
Description: Definition of crisis nursery services, information about six program models, and listing of resources and references for further information.
Domestic Violence and Child Safety Planning
Description: This article discusses domestic violence and how to keep children safe.
FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Family Resource and Support Programs
Description: FRIENDS is the National Resource Center for the Community Based Family Resource and Support (CBFRS) program, under a cooperative agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children, Youth and Families, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect. The purpose of the CBFRS program is to support State efforts to create and support a statewide network of community-based, family-centered, prevention-focused family resource and support programs, in order to strengthen families and reduce the incidence of child abuse and neglect.
Healthy Families America: A Distinctive Approach to Home Visiting
Description: This fact sheet describes the Healthy Families America's voluntary home visiting program to promote positive parenting, enhance health outcomes for children and prevent child abuse and neglect.
How to Report Suspected Child Maltreatment
Description: Reporting abuse or neglect can protect a child and get help for a family—it may even save a child's life. In some States, any person who suspects child abuse or neglect is required to report. Provides state-specific information on how to report suspected abuse.
Key Federal Child Welfare Laws
Description: This document lists and explains key federal child welfare laws.
National Efforts to Address Chronicity and Cumulative Harm
Description: This resource discusses national efforts to address child neglect.
Parental Drug Use as Child Abuse: Summary of State Laws
Description: This article provides a summary of state laws regarding parental drug use as child abuse.
Raising Teens: A Synthesis of Research and a Foundation for Action
Description: This report has been written to heighten media and public attention to both a crisis and an opportunity. The report focuses on the risks faced by teenagers from violence, mental illness, abuse, neglect, inadequate education, substance abuse, poverty, and other sources that profoundly jeopardize their futures.
Recognizing and Preventing Child Abuse
Description: This resource provides information and other resources for understanding child abuse, the warning signs that a child is being abused, how to help the abused child and how to report child abuse and break the cycle of abuse.
Respite Services for Families with Adolescents at Risk of Abuse or Neglect
Author: Edwards-Sutton, Jill
Description: An often forgotten population in the field of respite, teens and their families in crisis can greatly benefit from temporary relief. Program design, services for parents, and services for adolescents are discussed.
Responding to a Disclosure of Child Abuse
Author: Reilly, Jackie (8 more by this author); Sally S. Martin, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension
Description: This fact sheet from Nevada Cooperative Extension is aimed at child care providers and providing tips for how to respond and report suspected child abuse or maltreatment.
Responding to Child Abuse and Neglect
Description: The Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families. Each State has a system to receive and respond to reports of possible child abuse and neglect. Professionals and concerned citizens can call statewide hotlines, local child protective services, or law enforcement agencies to share their concerns.
Description: This manual provides information on the roles and responsibilities of child care providers in preventing, recognizing, and reporting child abuse and neglect within and outside early childhood programs. It also presents an overview of prevention efforts, reporting laws, caring for maltreated children, and ways to support parents and professionals who work with families.
Author: Reilly, Jackie (8 more by this author); Sally S. Martin, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension
Description: This fact sheet describes the four kinds of child abuse and neglect: physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect and sexual abuse.
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Description: This website provides information and resources on applying a theory of change framework to guide planning and evaluation for a systemic approach to reform.
Stop the Silence: Stop Child Sexual Abuse
Description: The mission of Stop the Silence is to expose and stop child sexual abuse and help survivors heal worldwide.
The Story of the Children’s Bureau
Description: This brochure provides an overview of the research and data collection, public awareness campaigns, and leadership development of the Children’s Bureau, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
Toll-Free Crisis Hotline Numbers
Description: This website provides toll-free crisis hotline numbers regarding child welfare.
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Adults and Children Together— Against Violence
Description: Adults and Children Together— (ACT) Against Violence is a violence prevention project that focuses on adults who raise, care for, and teach young children ages 0 to 8 years. It is designed to prevent violence by helping these adults to be positive role models and learn the skills to teach young children nonviolent ways to resolve conflicts, deal with frustration, and handle anger. The site includes a searchable database of journal articles, book chapters, and other publications related to children, violence, and violence prevention.
California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare
Description: The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC) provides child welfare professionals with access to information about selected child welfare programs.
Child Abuse Recognition and Reporting: A Self-Study Guide for People Working with Children
Author: Reilly, Jackie (8 more by this author); Sally S. Martin, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension
Description: This self-study guide is designed to help people who work with youth gain an understanding of child maltreatment and related implications. The self-guide defines four general types of child maltreatment, and provides an overview of the indicators of child abuse and/or neglect and how to report suspected child abuse.
Description: In this webcast, representatives from four federally funded demonstration projects share their experiences developing policies and procedures to meet the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act mandates related to substance exposed newborns.
Description: Parenting Now!, a division of Birth To Three, is the provider of nationally recognized parenting curricula, products, training and consultation. Materials are designed for programs and practitioners who work with families that have children.
Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance
Description: Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance focuses on preventing child abuse and neglect by providing information, educational materials, and programs that promote positive parenting.
Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect
Description: Provides information on reporting suspected child abuse and neglect.
Stop the Silence: Stop Child Sexual Abuse
Description: The mission of Stop the Silence is to expose and stop child sexual abuse and help survivors heal worldwide.
The National Family Preservation Network
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: The National Family Preservation Network is an organization dedicated to promoting and preserving the well-being of children at risk of being removed from their families.
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A Brief Synopsis of Child Sexual Abuse from Onset to Adult Life
Author: Direnfeld, Gary (34 more by this author)
Description: This article describes the process of childhood sexual abuse and impact on child, then adult functioning and concludes with how to help.
Adults and Children Together— Against Violence
Description: Adults and Children Together— (ACT) Against Violence is a violence prevention project that focuses on adults who raise, care for, and teach young children ages 0 to 8 years. It is designed to prevent violence by helping these adults to be positive role models and learn the skills to teach young children nonviolent ways to resolve conflicts, deal with frustration, and handle anger. The site includes a searchable database of journal articles, book chapters, and other publications related to children, violence, and violence prevention.
Description: This site, through its Children's Division, has worked for over a century to help improve and enhance public child welfare systems and private child-focused agencies in their responses to the plight of abused and neglected children.
Description: This is the Home Page for the U. S. Army Family Advocacy Program. The site contains a series of resources focusing on child abuse prevention.
Best Practices for Parent Education Programs Seeking to Prevent Child Abuse
Author: Shannon, Lisa (4 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet summarizes the best practices for parent education programs designed to prevent child abuse and neglect.
California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare
Description: The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC) provides child welfare professionals with access to information about selected child welfare programs.
Description: This guide explains what happens if you are being prosecuted for abusing or neglecting your children.
Child Abuse Prevention Network
Description: This site provides information on child abuse and child abuse prevention.
Description: This Child Maltreatment 2010 report presents national data about child abuse and in the U.S. during Federal fiscal year (FFY) 2010. The data were collected and analyzed through the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS).
Description: This article explains what child sexual abuse is, what its effects are, how to prove it, and how to prevent it.
Child Victims of Sexual Abuse and the Law
Description: This article provides an overview of the significant legal issues presented in the investigation and prosecution of child sexual abuse allegations.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Description: Formerly the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families. A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Spanish language resources are available.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Description: The Clearinghouse is a major resource center for professionals concerned with child maltreatment issues. The Clearinghouse maintains a database of documents, audiovisual materials, services, programs, excerpts of state statutes, and ongoing research projects concerning child abuse and neglect. Their Web site also includes a listing of national hotlines to report child abuse.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Author: Simpson, A. (3 more by this author)
Description: The National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information provides both general resources and ones directed at professionals. Topics include ways to promote safe children and healthy families, an overview of child abuse and neglect, and tips on supporting families dealing with abuse and neglect issues.
Child Welfare Information Gateway Resources in Spanish
Description: This website from the Child Welfare Information Gateway, provides resources to support professionals in their work with Spanish-speaking families and community members. Selected publications on child abuse and neglect, prevention, adoption, and more are available in both Spanish and English.
Description: Children's Bureau Express is designed for professionals concerned with child abuse and neglect, child welfare, and adoption.
Description: Children's Response Center, a program of Harborview Medical Center, provides services and support for children and youth under the age of 18 who have experienced sexual assault or other traumatic events. problems.
Chronic Families, Chronic Neglect
Description: This document provides information on child neglect and how to reduce repeat maltreatment.
FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP)
Description: FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP) is a service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Children's Bureau. This site serves as a resource to those programs and to the rest of the Child Abuse Prevention community.
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: What You Need to Know about Abuse and Neglect
Author: Bales, Diane (20 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for grandparents raising their grandchildren who are faced with dealing with the aftermath of child abuse and/or neglect.
Helping Children Cope with Stress
Description: This article explains childhood stress and provides information on helping your child cope with these stresses.
Helping Children Grow: The Causes and Prevention of Child Abuse
Author: Bailey, Cindee (18 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on ways to prevent child abuse.
Hitting hurts. So Does Exposure To It As A Kid.
Description: This site discusses child abuse and its effects.
Description: This information packet provides information on the contributing factors of maltreatment, in order to prevent repeat maltreatment.
Description: This site is involved with building special Internet resources for solving problems in the field of child maltreatment.
Description: This website consists of many informative links on the subject of and prevention of child abuse and other family violence.
National Child Abuse Prevention Month
Description: This website provides information and resources to help raise awareness about child abuse and neglect and create strong communities to support children and families to help prevent child abuse.
National Children's Advocacy Center
Description: The National Children's Advocacy Center is focused on prevention and treatment options for physically and sexually abused children and their families. Uses a child-centered, family focused approach.
National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect
Description: The central data archive for researchers in child abuse and neglect in the USA. The RCCP's partners in providing Internet working skills for child abuse prevention.
Author: Myers-Walls, Judith (6 more by this author)
Description: Parenting Piece by Piece is a curriculum guide for a series of eight parenting education sessions and three optional sessions. It was originally designed for use with parents who have been mandated to attend parenting training due to their identification as abusive and/or neglectful parents. The current edition also includes guidelines for adapting the program for use with incarcerated parents or with the caregivers of children whose parents have lost custody.
Parenting Skills Workshop Series (PSWS)
Author: Bailey, John (1 more by this author); Sandra Wilkins; Susan Perkins
Description: This workshop manual is designed for professionals working with parents who may not learn well from text-based teaching approaches. Basic parenting skills are presented in a hands-on learning format suitable for any level of literacy. Originally designed for court-mandated parents, this workshop has proved successful with a broad audience. Ordering information provided through this site.
Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance
Description: Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance focuses on preventing child abuse and neglect by providing information, educational materials, and programs that promote positive parenting.
Description: This website focuses on using computer networking to support child abuse prevention.
Preventing Child Maltreatment and Promoting Well-Being: Network for Action 2012 Resource Guide
Description: This guide supports service providers in their work with parents, caregivers, and their children to strengthen families and prevent child abuse and neglect. It focuses on the six protective factors, which have been proven to reduce the risk of abuse and neglect, and provides tools and strategies to integrate the factors into existing programs and systems.
Preventing Sexual Abuse: A Guide for Parents
Description: This article provides tips for parents on reducing the risk of sexual abuse for their children.
Description: The Promising Practices Network features summaries of evaluated programs that improve outcomes for children. Topics include: Behavior Problems, Child Abuse and Neglect, Cognitive Development / School Performance, Juvenile Justice, Mental Health, Physical Health, Poverty / Welfare, Substance Abuse, Teen Sex/Pregnancy, and Violent Behavior.
Protecting Children in Families Affected by Substance Use Disorders
Description: This manual, from the the Child Abuse and Neglect User Manual Series, examines the nature of substance abuse; its impact on child development; in-home examination, screening, and assessment for substance abuse; treatment goals and approaches; the role of the child protective services (CPS) caseworker when substance abuse is identified; and how professionals can work together to help families.
Description: This article discusses the concept of conflict as well as how to resolve it.
Secrets of Parenting: All Parents want to Love their Children
Description: This article provides advice on loving your children through the good and the bad.
Secrets of Parenting: Parental Stress Can Spill Over to the Kids
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author); Lisa Shannon
Description: This fact sheet discusses the challenges parenting presents, particularly during stressful times. It makes suggestions on ways to reduce the impact of the stressful event on family members and ways to confront and manage stress.
Strengthening Families and Communities: 2011 Resource Guide
Description: This Resource Guide was written to support service providers in their work with parents, caregivers, and their children to strengthen families and prevent child abuse and neglect. The guide includes information about protective factors that help reduce the risk of child maltreatment, strategies for changing how communities support families, and evidence-informed practices. It also offers suggestions for enhancing protective factors in families, tools to build awareness and develop community partnerships, information about child abuse and neglect, a directory of national organizations that work to strengthen families, and tip sheets in English and Spanish on specific parenting topics.
Description: The Children's Bureau (CB) provides a child welfare services including child protective services (child abuse and neglect) family preservation and support, foster care, adoption and independent living.
The Family Violence Research Program
Description: The Family Research Laboratory (FRL) is an independent research unit at the University of New Hampshire devoted to the study of family violence.
The Nurturing Parenting Programs
Author: Johnson, Richard (1 more by this author)
Description: The Nurturing Parenting Programs® were created by Stephen J. Bavolek, Ph.D. Dr. Bavolek is recognized for his work in promoting nurturing parenting attitudes and skills for the prevention and treatment of child abuse. The Nurturing Parenting Programs are recognized by CSAP Center for Substance Abuse; OJJDP, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; and SAMHSA Substance Abuse and Mental Health.
Description: The Nurturing Parenting Programs are a family-centered initiative designed to build nurturing parenting skills as an alternative to abusive and neglecting parenting and child-rearing practices.
Description: The Parenting Network provides articles and related information for parents and caregivers of children to help deal with the stresses of parenting.
The Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect: Identification of High Risk Parents
Author: Bavolek, Stephen (1 more by this author)
Description: Summary of Stephen J. Bavolek's research presentation at the CYFAR 2003 Conference. Provides an overview of the research in the identification of high risk parenting practices that lead to the maltreatment of children, and the five parenting patterns that contribute to abuse and neglect: Inappropriate parental expectations; lack of parental empathy; strong belief in the use of corporal punishment; reversing parent-child family roles; and oppressing childrenÂ’s power and independence.
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Abuse of Children with Intellectual Disabilities
Description: This article discusses why children with intellectual disabilities are more likely to be abused and how to prevent abuse from occurring.
Description: This study addresses crucial program, practice, and policy issues in the areas of dynamics of the child welfare system, and outcomes for children and families. It describes the children and families who come into contact with the child welfare system, and examine child and family risk factors, service needs, and services received, and examines outcomes for children and families to describe the interaction of the child welfare system and services with other service systems.
Addressing Substance Abuse and Child Maltreatment: The RMQIC
Description: This article discusses projects that address substance abuse and child maltreatment.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study
Description: The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study is one of the largest investigations ever conducted to assess associations between childhood maltreatment and later-life health and well-being. The study is a collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente's Health Appraisal Clinic in San Diego.
Description: Findings of this study show that disclosure is mainly determined by a complex interplay of factors related to child characteristics, family environment, community influences, and cultural and societal attitudes.
Description: Research continues to indicate a concerning number of children and youth, between 60-80%, withhold disclosure until
adulthood suggesting that many children endure prolonged victimization or never receive necessary intervention. The study aim was to qualitatively identify factors that impede or promote child sexual abuse disclosure.
Author: Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne (1 more by this author)
Description: Data collected though the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System, a voluntary data collection system, shows that Child Protective Service agencies received an estimated 3.3 million referrals of possible maltreatment. Of the 905,000 substantiated reports, the majority (64.1 percent) involved neglect. For 2006, an estimated 1,530 children died, with more than three-quarters of the victims under four years of age. More than 40 percent of the deaths were attributable to neglect.
Description: This Child Maltreatment 2008 report presents national data about child abuse and neglect in the United States during Federal fiscal year 2008.
Description: This Child Maltreatment 2008 report presents national data about child abuse and neglect in the United States during Federal fiscal year 2008.
Description: Child Maltreatment 2009 presents national data about child abuse and neglect known to CPS agencies
in the United States during Federal fiscal year (FFY) 2009. The data were collected and analyzed through the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS), which is supported by the Children’s Bureau.
Author: Peterson, Pam
Description: This article reports results of a statewide survey to assess the knowledge of child abuse and neglect, reporting beliefs, and practices of Extension educators. Recommendations are made for annual child maltreatment education, educational resources, and development of child maltreatment reporting policy and procedures within Cooperative Extension.
Child Maltreatment Surveillance, Uniform Definitions for Public Health and Recommended Data Elements
Description: The purpose of this article is to present a definition of child maltreatment, its associated terms, and recommended data elements for voluntary use by individuals and organizations in the public health community.
Children’s Exposure to Violence: A Comprehensive National Survey
Description: Presents findings from the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence, the most comprehensive survey to date of children’s exposure to violence in the United States. Discusses the survey’s findings regard children’s direct and indirect exposure to specific categories of violence, how exposure to violence changes as children grow up, and the prevalence and incidence of multiple and cumulative exposures to violence.
Evidence-Based Practices for Children Exposed to Violence: A Selection from Federal Databases
Description: This publication summarizes findings from federal reviews of research studies and program evaluations to help communities improve outcomes for children exposed to violence. It cites evidence-based practices that practitioners and policymakers can use to implement prevention services and activities for these children.
Exposure to Violence Between Parents Significantly Increases Risk for Adult Partner Violence
Author: Partenheimer, David
Description: This research brief summarizes the results of a 20-year study that found that children exposed to violence and who received excessive punishment are more likely to become abusers themselves in adulthood.
Focus Groups on Substance Exposed Newborns. Summary Report
Description: During the summer and fall of 2008, The National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center (NAIARC) conducted a series of focus and discussion groups with three separate populations: child welfare administrators, pediatricians, and obstetricians. This report includes a brief description of the focus group participants and a summary of the combined findings.
Healthy Families America Achievements
Description: This fact sheet highlights Healthy Families America's accomplishments in the areas of political and financial support, training, capacity-building, quality assurance and research.
Healthy Families America: A Program that Works
Description: This executive summary describes how the program strengthens families and reduces the risk factors that contribute to child maltreatment.
Description: The latest study by a veteran analyst of the ill-effects of corporal punishment has uncovered evidence that spanking can damage young children's developing intelligence.
How trauma ‘gets under the skin’
Author: Michaels, Cari (2 more by this author)
Description: Children are particularly sensitive to the effects of stress, and thus environmental factors that stress children including neglect and abuse can negatively affect a child's biological and cognitive development, as well as their behavior and social relationships. This Children’s Mental Health eReview summarizes the research, possible interventions, follwed by practitioners discussing the implications for practice and policy.
Noticing and Helping the Neglected Child: Literature Review
Description: This literature review aimed to provide a synthesis of the existing empirical evidence about the ways in which children and families signal their need for help, how those signals are recognized and responded to and whether response could be swifter.
Pregnant and Parenting Foster Youth: Their Needs, Their Experiences
Description: This article examines the needs and experiences of pregnant and parenting foster youth.
Author: Saul, Janet
Description: This report is designed for representatives of youth-serving organizations who
are interested in adopting strategies to prevent child sexual abuse.
Protecting Children from Abuse and Neglect: A Synopsis
Author: Various Authors, Various Authors
Description: This report discusses in-depth research done regarding children, abuse and neglect.
Author: Edwards, Valerie; Vincent J. Felitti; George W. Holden; Robert F. Anda
Description: This study examines the prevalence of a history of various combinations of childhood maltreatment types (physical abuse, sexual abuse, and witnessing of maternal battering) among adult members of a health maintenance organization (HMO) and explored the relationship with adult mental health of the combinations of types of childhood maltreatment and emotional abuse in the childhood family environment. Results From the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study.
Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect
Description: Provides information on reporting suspected child abuse and neglect.
Author: Frazier, Billie (2 more by this author); Karen C. Morgan, Ph.D.; Kathleen C. Hayes, M.S., C.H.E.
Description: A list of resources regarding child abuse that includes books, journal articles, and dissertations. Created in the mid 1990's
Author: Frazier, Billie (2 more by this author); Kathleen C. Hayes, M.S., C.H.E.
Description: A list of resources regarding sibling abuse that includes books, journal articles, and dissertations.
Shifting Resources in Child Welfare to Achieve Better Outcomes for Children and Families
Description: This research brief describes how reinvestment is being used in other fields and applied in child welfare. It identifies program areas that could be scaled back to free up funds for more effective strategies to improve outcomes for children and families. Exemplars from states that have made these reforms to support the accomplishment of organizational priorities and achieve more positive child welfare outcomes are highlighted.
Substance Abuse Child Welfare Waiver Demonstrations
Author: Collins, Gail (3 more by this author)
Description: This report examines programs that focused on the early identification of parents with substance abuse disorders and the provision of service referrals for these parents.
This report is based on evaluation reports submitted by States that received title IV-E waivers to implement assisted guardianship demonstration projects: Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, and New Hampshire.
The Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect: Identification of High Risk Parents
Author: Bavolek, Stephen (1 more by this author)
Description: Summary of Stephen J. Bavolek's research presentation at the CYFAR 2003 Conference. Provides an overview of the research in the identification of high risk parenting practices that lead to the maltreatment of children, and the five parenting patterns that contribute to abuse and neglect: Inappropriate parental expectations; lack of parental empathy; strong belief in the use of corporal punishment; reversing parent-child family roles; and oppressing childrenÂ’s power and independence.
The Roles of Parenting and Child Welfare Services in Alcohol Use by Adolescents
Description: This study examined the impact of child maltreatment on adolescents' alcohol use, taking into account parental drinking and the involvement of child welfare services in the adolescents' lives.
Understanding Data and the Child Welfare System
Description: This publication examines the links between data, policy and outcomes for vulnerable children and families.
Updated Trends in Child Maltreatment
Description: This report highlights a 12% decline in the rate of substantiated child maltreatment from 2006 to 2007, but notes how statistical changes in four states’ system may account for the decline.