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Sustaining Progress in Preventing Child Maltreatment: A Transformative Challenge

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Abstract

Developing an effective prevention response to maltreatment has long been stymied by the sheer breadth of behaviors and social conditions associated with the terms child abuse and neglect. The purpose of this chapter is to take stock of where the prevention field is at and to identify those areas that offer the richest opportunities for doing better. The chapter is not simply a review of exemplary prevention programs but rather an overview of how the field has evolved and the core issues and challenges it faces moving forward. The chapter then summarizes research in four areas which are generating the greatest interest among policy makers, practitioners, and researchers – early intervention services; investments in evidence-based practice; implementation research; and system development. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the challenges facing the field and outlines a set of promising pathways available for improving prevention’s reach and effectiveness.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The nine evidence-based programs chosen as “national models” and green-lighted for implementation as part of the MIECH-V program are: (1) Child FIRST, (2) Early Head Start-Home Visiting, (3) Early Intervention Program for Adolescent Mothers (EIP), (4) Family Check-Up, (5) Healthy Families America (HFA), (6) Healthy Steps, (7) Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY), (8) Nurse Family Partnership (NFP), and (9) Parents as Teachers (PAT). For more information on the home visiting models assessed for effectiveness, visit the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness website: http://homvee.acf.hhs.gov/Default.aspx.

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    Department of Education website: http://www2.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop-earlylearningchallenge/awards.html.

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    More information about evidence-based programs identified by the review can be found at the Office of Adolescent Health website here: http://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/oah-initiatives/tpp/programs.html.

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    More information about individual projects is available from the Office of Adolescent Health here: http://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/oah-initiatives/tpp/grantees/tpp-tier1.pdf

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    Demonstration programs funded by OAH: http://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/oah-initiatives/tpp/grantees/tpp-tier2.pdf

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    Information on community-based teen pregnancy prevention efforts can be found at the CDC site here: http://www.cdc.gov/TeenPregnancy/State-Community-Orgs.htm.

  7. 7.

    HHS Promoting Responsible Fatherhood website: http://fatherhood.hhs.gov/2010Initiative/index.shtml.

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    ACF maintains the NRFC website to provide up to date information to families: http://fatherhood.gov/home.

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    ACF OPRE resources on fatherhood programming research: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/strengthen/proven_promising/index.html.

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Daro, D., Benedetti, G. (2014). Sustaining Progress in Preventing Child Maltreatment: A Transformative Challenge. In: Korbin, J., Krugman, R. (eds) Handbook of Child Maltreatment. Child Maltreatment, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7208-3_14

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