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Preventing child abuse and neglect : a technical package for policy, norm, and programmatic activities / developed by Beverly L. Fortson [and four others].
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Fortson, Beverly L., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child welfare--United States.
- Child welfare.
- Child abuse--United States--Prevention.
- Child abuse.
- Children--Crimes against--United States--Prevention.
- Children.
- Children--Crimes against--Prevention.
- Child abuse--Prevention.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Online resources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (47 pages) : color illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Atlanta, Georgia : Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016.
- Summary:
- 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 ... This package supports CDC's 'Essentials for Childhood' framework for preventing child abuse and neglect. In particular, it articulates a select set of strategies and specific approaches that can create the context for healthy children and families and prevent child abuse and neglect (Goals 3 and 4 of the framework ..."--Page 7.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-44).
- Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from title page (CDC, viewed July 18, 2018).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Fortson, Beverly L. Preventing child abuse and neglect
- OCLC:
- 967751934
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