Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention: Exemplary Practices

Date

2014

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FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse

Abstract

It was to address the home and community contexts for child maltreatment that CAPTA authorized the establishment of the Community Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP) program. CBCAP programs in 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and three tribal nations and migrant programs, blend federal, state and local funds, and create interagency networks, to support coordinated prevention services and family support, and to foster parent leadership. Importantly, CBCAP programs also promote and encourage evidence-based and evidence-informed practices, and continuous evaluation. The knowledge generated by continuous evaluation conducted in hundreds of local CBCAP programs across the nation is used to gauge progress within those programs, and also shared with national leaders to inform decision-making and influence future directions for the CBCAP program as a whole. The eight key strategic areas discussed below represent elements critical to the effective prevention of child maltreatment. Derived from research and through ongoing collaboration among local CBCAP programs, the FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community Based Child Abuse Prevention (FRIENDS) links to a comprehensive logic model that describes in broad terms what it takes to foster the human ecology of individual and family strengths and community support that make good parenting possible. The following examples from CBCAP State Lead Agencies and programs demonstrate innovation and leadership that each implemented during the last year in these eight key areas. They also provide insight into what it means to prevent child abuse in the context of individual children and families within their communities and provide evidence that child abuse and neglect prevention matters. (Introductory Text)

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Keywords

child abuse, prevention, evidence-based practice

Citation

Summers, S. J. (2014). Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention: Exemplary Practices. Chapel Hill, NC: FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse .

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