Guastaferro, K., & Lutzker, J. R.2021-09-142021-09-142021Guastaferro, K., & Lutzker, J. R. (2021). The Prevention of Child Maltreatment: Using SafeCare® to Highlight Successes and Needs for Improvement in Prevention Efforts. International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice, 1-11.https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s42448-021-00090-w.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/5220Child maltreatment is a public health problem of considerable magnitude. Though substantial progress has been made in the prevention of child maltreatment, one incident of maltreatment is one too many. Intervention and/or prevention eforts must always be dynamic. In this commentary, we highlight recent prevention and policy eforts in the United States, using SafeCare, an evidence-based parent support program with a focus on the prevention of neglect, as an example. We describe broad-scale implementation eforts and ofer a vision for what the feld must do to realize public heath impact, highlighting recent advances of parent support models in policy, advocacy, and programs. Strategies that might improve current eforts are suggested to ensure the feld not become staticenchild maltreatmentpreventionhome visitingresearchArticle