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August 28, 2008

Is It Injury or Neglect? Improving Our Knowledge to Better Protect Children

Presenters: Steven Wirtz, California Department of Public Health; Theresa Covington, National Center on Child Death Review; and Stephanie Biegler, Child Abuse Prevention Council of Sacramento, Inc.

This webinar presenters discussed efforts to better define neglect in the context of accidental injury and described models of child death case reviews that will lead to improved understanding, reporting, and prevention strategies.

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June 11, 2008

Applying Evidence-Based Practice in Communities of Color

Presenter: Vickie Ybarra, RN, MPH, Director of Planning and Development, Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic

This session demonstrated one community-based organization's experience in implementing a variety of evidence-based and promising practices in a community of color, some with adaptation and some without. The presenters examined interventions from a perspective of "culturally grounded" or not, and overlaid them on the newly developed FRIENDS Integrating Evidence-Based Practices into CBCAP Programs: A Tool for Critical Discussions.

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May 21, 2008

Strengthening Families 201: Sustaining and Deepening State Strengthening Families Efforts

Presenter: Nilofer Ahsan, Center for the Study of Social Policy

This call was primarily for those states that have incorporated Strengthening Families as part of their child abuse and neglect prevention efforts. Strengthening Families is a strategy for engaging early care and education providers and others working with families with young children in building protective factors that have been shown by research to be connected to child abuse and neglect prevention. The call included discussion of new resources; new tools and new directions that can help states sustain and deepen their existing Strengthening Families work.

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April 23, 2008

Parent Training Programs to Prevent Childhood Behavior Problems: What Components Are Most Helpful?

Presenters: Sandra Alexander, M.Ed. and Jennifer Wyatt Kaminski, Ph.D.

This session presented results from a recent systematic review of parent training programs that are intended to prevent behavior problems among children aged 0-7. Presenters discussed the implications of the findings and the translation of the the results for child maltreatment prevention.

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March 27, 2008

Secondary Data Analysis From the National Survey on Child and Adolescent Well-Being

Presenters: Barbara J. Burns, Ph.D., Duke University School of Medicine; Sandra Jee, Ph.D., University of Rochester Medical Center; and Dana Schultz, Ph.D., Rand Corporation

This webinar highlighted several research projects conducting secondary analysis on the National Survey on Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW), a study funded by ACF's Office of Planning Research and Evaluation (OPRE). This survey is a five-year longitudinal study of 5501 children who had contact with the child welfare system. Research using NSCAW data informs policy and practice in child welfare services and other services to maltreated children and their families, and advances the state of knowledge in child maltreatment, child welfare, child and family services, and/or child development for high-risk children.

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