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Training on Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention
Resources include core/foundation training curricula and materials for child welfare caseworkers on child abuse and neglect prevention that address topics such as primary prevention strategies, parent education and support, protective factors, and more.
Bringing the Protective Factors Framework to Life in Your Work – A Resource for Action
National Alliance of Children's Trust and Prevention Funds (2012)
Offers an interactive online training on the protective factors for practitioners working with parents. Promising strategies to strengthen families are also included.
Practicing Safety: To Promote Healthy and Safe Child Development
American Academy of Pediatrics
Offers training modules on seven parenting and family environment topics to discuss with parents to help prevent child abuse and neglect.
Orientation to Violence Prevention
PREVENT Institute (2005)
Introduces the key concepts of "primary prevention"—stopping violence before it starts—in a three-part series.
Community Tool Box
University of Kansas Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development
Provides training on topics related to community health and development, including step-by-step instruction, examples, checklists, and "plan the work" toolkits.
Culture and Parenting: A Guide for Delivering Parenting Curriculums to Diverse Families (PDF - 290 KB)
University of California Cooperative Extension (2006)
Helps practitioners evaluate the cultural sensitivity of the programs and services they offer to families and provides guidance on how to make parenting programs more culturally sensitive.
Practice Guideline: Integrating Prevention Into the Work of Child Maltreatment Professionals
American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children
Practice Guidelines, 2010
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Presents guidelines designed to assist professionals in going beyond reporting child abuse by integrating best practices for child maltreatment prevention activities into their daily work with children and families.
Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect in Disaster Emergency Shelters
National Resource Center for Child Protective Services (2006)
Trains emergency shelter staff and volunteers on abuse and neglect, keeping children safe, and how to report suspected maltreatment.
Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect: Parent-Provider Partnerships in Child Care
ZERO TO THREE (2006)
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Helps workers promote positive parenting and healthy social-emotional development in children by building protective factors into their programs.
Principles of Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Offers a free online training on prevention that addresses different types of violence; primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention; the social ecological model; and the public health approach to violence prevention. Also see the Child Maltreatment section.
Promoting Child Welfare: Training Professionals to Support Healthy Marriages, Healthy Relationships and Families
Syracuse University, College of Human Services and Health Professions
Presents training to enhance workers' ability to facilitate healthy marriages, couple relationships, and families within the child welfare population with the goal of promoting and improving the well-being of children.
The Risk and Prevention of Maltreatment of Children with Disabilities | |
Series Title: | Bulletins for Professionals |
Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
Availability: | View Download (PDF - 588KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
Year Published: | 2012 - 20 pages |
Describes child abuse and neglect of children with disabilities in terms of the scope of the problem, risk factors, and strategies for prevention. The background section looks at statistics and research and highlights what might be happening with families that come into the child welfare system. The second section offers tips to identify and assess abuse and neglect in children with disabilities, respond collaboratively, and locate training resources. |
ROPER Online Learning Program
Center for Parent Education and Family Support
Presents basic curricula for professionals on issues related to parenting and family life. Registration required.
Talking About Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention
FrameWorks Institute & Prevent Child Abuse America
Presents a toolkit compendium of research on how Americans think about child development, and how to increase public support for policies that support prevention and intervention policies that reduce child abuse and neglect.
Training for Prevention
Stop It Now!
Offers free online training to help parents and professionals prevent child sexual abuse and links to other training resources.