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Chapter 2 Preventive Services
The objective of child abuse and neglect prevention programs is
to provide services to families and their children at risk of child
maltreatment. Such services are designed to increase parental
childrearing competence and knowledge of the developmental stages
of childhood. This chapter reports the number of children who
received preventive services, the types of service received, and
the funding sources for these services.
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2.1 Children Receiving Preventive Services
Nationwide, approximately 20 of every 1,000 children in the
population, an estimated 1,397,000 children, received preventive
services.1 Because of the complexity of collecting
data on preventive services, which are often provided through local
community-based agencies, these figures may be an
undercount.
2.2 Types of Preventive Services and Funding Sources
Some examples of preventive services cited by States include
respite care; parenting education; housing assistance; substance
abuse treatment; day care; home visits; and individual and family
counseling, homemaker, transportation, crisis and intervention, and
domestic violence services.
State CPS agencies use Federal and State funds to provide
preventive services. State contacts mentioned the following
programs as the most common sources for funding preventive
services:
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Title
IV-B, Subpart 2, Section 430, of the Social Security Act, as
amended (Promoting Safe and Stable Families) [42 U.S.C. 629 et
seq.]. This legislation has the goal of keeping families together
by funding such services as preventive intervention, so that
children do not have to be removed from their homes; services to
develop alternative placements if children cannot remain safely in
the home; and reunification services to enable children to return
to their homes, if appropriate.
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Title
XX of the Social Security Act, Social Services Block Grants
(SSBG) [42 U.S.C. 1397 et seq.]. SSBG funds are used for such
services as child day care, child protective services, information
and referral, counseling, and employment.
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Section 106 of Title I of
the CAPTA, as amended (42 U.S.C. 5106 et seq.). The Child Abuse
and Neglect State Grants provide funds to States to improve child
protective service systems. These grants serve as a catalyst to
assist States in screening and investigating child abuse and
neglect reports, improving risk and safety assessment protocols,
training child protective service workers and mandated reporters,
and improving services to infants disabled with life-threatening
conditions.
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Title II of the CAPTA,
as amended (42 U.S.C. 5116 et seq.). Community-Based Family
Resource and Support Grants assist each State in preventing child
abuse and neglect and in promoting healthy parent-child
relationships by developing, operating, expanding, and enhancing a
network of community-based, prevention-focused, family resource and
support programs that coordinate resources among a broad range of
human service organizations.
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