Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect: A Technical Package for Policy, Norm, and Programmatic Activities

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• Personal Author:
  Fortson, Beverly L. ; Klevens, Joanne ; Merrick, Melissa T. ; Gilbert, Leah K. ; Alexander, Sandra P.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (U.S.). Division of Violence Prevention
• Description:
  This technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help prevent child abuse and neglect. These strategies include strengthening economic supports to families; changing social norms to support parents and positive parenting; providing quality care and education early in life; enhancing parenting skills to promote healthy child development; and intervening to lessen harms and prevent future risk. The strategies represented in this package include those with a focus on preventing child abuse and neglect from happening in the first place as well as approaches to lessen the immediate and long-term harms of child abuse and neglect. These strategies range from a focus on individuals, families, and relationships to broader community and societal change. This range of strategies is needed to better address the interplay between individual-family behavior and broader neighborhood, community, and cultural contexts. This package supports CDC’s Essentials for Childhood framework for preventing child abuse and neglect. In particular, it articulates a select set of strategies and specific approaches that can create the context for healthy children and families and prevent child abuse and neglect (Goals 3 and 4 of the framework). Commitment, cooperation, and leadership from numerous sectors, including public health, education, justice, health care, social services, business/labor, and government can bring about successful implementation of this package.
• Content Notes:
  Publication date estimated from document properties
• Subjects:
  Child Abuse Child Welfare
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.15620/cdc.38864
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC)
• Division:
  DVP - Division of Violence Prevention
• Topic:
  Injury, Violence, & Safety
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  52 pdf pages
• Citation:
  Suggested citation: Fortson, B. L., Klevens, J., Merrick, M. T., Gilbert, L. K., & Alexander, S. P. (2016). Preventing child abuse and neglect: A technical package for policy, norm, and programmatic activities. Atlanta, GA: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/38864/cdc_38864_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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