Preventing child abuse and neglect: A technical package for policy, norm, and programmatic activities
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2016
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National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Abstract
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.
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child abuse, neglect, prevention, policy, evaluation, parenting, child development
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.