Best Practices: Prevention
- Emerging Practices in the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect - This publication by an Advisory Group to the Children's Bureau Office on Child Abuse and Neglect collects information on initiatives and examines their effectiveness.
- Strategies for Preventing Violence: Early Childhood Home Visitation - The Task Force on Community Preventive Services (the Task Force) conducted a systematic review of scientific evidence concerning the effectiveness of early childhood home visitation for preventing several forms of violence, and concluded that home visitation has demonstrated effectiveness for preventing child abuse and neglect.
- Tough Problems, Tough Choices: Guidelines for Needs-Based Service Planning in Child Welfare - This publication contains 14 separate guides that help practitioners make effective service and case planning decisions and achieve measurable outcomes for children and families, including child abuse and neglect.
- States Using Evidence-Based Methods to Prevent Child Abuse - A general article about the trend toward evidence-based practices, including an interview with John R. Lutzker of CDC on preventing child maltreatment.
- The Role of Home-Visitation Programs in Improving Health Outcomes for Children and Families - This policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics supports home-visitation programs as an effective mechanism to ensure ongoing parental education, social support, and linkage with public and private community services.
- Prenatal and Early Childhood Nurse Home Visitation - An issue of Juvenile Justice Bulletin that provides an overview of a home-visitation program tested over a 20 year period that reduces risk and even affects juvenile violence.
- Guide for Child Welfare Administrators on Evidence Based Practice - Prevention and intervention services published by the National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators.
- What Works - Programs and interventions that may influence outcomes for youth and young children, compiled by the Child Trends DataBank.
- Safe Child Program - A promising practice to be used in classroom settings that provides children ages three to ten with a set of skills to help them prevent sexual, emotional, and physical abuse.
- Best Practices for Parent Education Programs Seeking to Prevent Child Abuse - Suggested guidelines from the National Parenting Education Network to help parent education programs reduce the risk of child abuse.
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