Emerging Practice in the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect

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The Office on Child Abuse and Neglect initiated the Emerging Practices in the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect project in fiscal year 2001 to harvest new information on programs and initiatives operating around the country for the prevention of child maltreatment, and to disseminate that information to the professional community. A program nomination strategy was developed and implemented to learn more about current effective and innovative prevention programs; nominations of programs and initiatives were accepted from across the field.

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A report on the Emerging Practices project was released in April 2003 and presents the results of the nomination process for effective and innovative child maltreatment prevention programs. The full report is available in HTML and a printer-friendly version (PDF 1,908 KB).

Selected Highlights

* Nature and Scope of Child Maltreatment in the United States
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* What is Prevention and Why Is it Important?
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* What Kinds of Prevention Programs Currently Exist?
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* What Do We Know About the Effectiveness of Prevention?
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* Need to Expand Existing Knowledge About Effectiveness of Prevention
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* Integrating Research Into Practice
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