Through the Essentials for Childhood program, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention funds 7 state health departments (states) to address the urgent public health …

CONTEXT: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America
recommended that substantial resources be committed to ensure all children have high …

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 …

Research on adverse childhood experiences is a vital part of the data-to-action link and the
development of evidence-based public health and violence prevention practice. Etiological …

The consequences of child maltreatment can be devastating, not only for the children who
are its victims, but for their families and the larger community. In children, especially young …

A framework for understanding child maltreatment in terms of complex and interacting
factors from the individual to the societal level can aid in conceptualizing and implementing …

Child maltreatment calls for a broad range of preventative policies and practices, but limited
governmental funding and leadership has been devoted to the problem. Effective strategies …

Contemporary approaches to child protection have significant limitations and unintended
consequences for children, parents, families, and communities. Statutory services struggle to …

Childhood maltreatment captured medical attention almost 50 years ago. Reviews
considering the evidence for published maltreatment prevention programming emerged …

Much of the fabric in today's society is at odds with planning a robust and generative public
health response to child maltreatment prevention. A critical component of this problem is the …