Prevention

Striving to keep children safe at home, Circles of Support combines evidence-informed interventions within a culturally relevant context.

Mobile Response and Stabilization Services provides immediate support to stabilize children in crisis and keep them safe at home.

Scott Hippert describes how Family Connects approaches prevention by offering communitywide home visits to support families with newborns.

Barbara Andrade DuBransky, director of Family Supports at First 5 LA, describes the county’s constellation of home visiting programs.

New York City’s crisis nursery offers support to stabilize families in crisis with a goal to decrease the risk of child maltreatment.

This law provides opportunities for states and tribes to better serve children and families by preventing the need for foster care and supporting better outcomes for children in care. Explore these resources to learn more.

Explore how Children’s Village in New York City is offering community-based prevention services to keep children safe with their families.

Home visiting programs for new parents offer a universal approach to the prevention of child abuse and neglect. Explore Austin’s model.

This evidence brief explores the tremendous costs of child abuse and neglect and the cost-benefits of investing in prevention programs.

This resource highlights the tremendous costs of child abuse and neglect and the benefits of investing in programs aimed at children and families.

This information packet features five home visiting program models that have been found to be effective in reducing child maltreatment.

Home visiting programs can provide parents with the necessary tools, support, and knowledge to keep children safe and prevent future harm.

Learn from a research study that explores whether state-level social policies impact frequency and characteristics of child protection interventions.

Explore findings from a study that suggests that strategies implemented at a neighborhood-level may effectively decrease child maltreatment.

Explore findings from a study that shares how offering material supports to families is effective in reducing maltreatment.

Learn the findings from a study that examines the effect of child care subsidies on child maltreatment.

Learn the findings from a study that examined the impact of Connecticut’s statewide home visiting program on child maltreatment.

Learn from a study that examines the effect that refundable Earned Income Tax Credits have on the rate of children entering foster care.

Explore findings from a report that outlines why a consistent and coordinated approach to child fatality data is necessary.

This strategy brief describes how New Hampshire used Requests for Information to expand and improve its prevention service array.

This brief describes how New York City offers voluntary, in-home prevention services that aim to meet family needs and ensure child safety.

This brief describes how the state of Washington offers voluntary services that aim to connect families to necessary resources.

This brief describes how New Jersey offers voluntary services that aim to meet family needs and ensure child safety and well-being.

This overview summarizes the work of jurisdictions that provide voluntary child welfare services that aim to strengthen families.

This brief describes voluntary services offered to families in Oklahoma that aim to meet family needs and ensure child safety.

Learn about findings from a study that explores the effect that four social policies and programs can have on child poverty.

Learn how leadership in New Jersey developed an array of home visiting programs to meet the diverse needs families with young children.

This packet provides information about evidence-informed programs that aim to keep children safe and families together.

Discover how the SafeCare home visiting program effectively supports positive parenting practices and reduces incidents of maltreatment.

Understand how the Family First Prevention Services Act supports Indiana’s commitment to deliver evidence-based services to families.

Understand how access to fundamental and tangible economic supports can strengthen families and reduce child maltreatment.

Learn how the Nurse-Family Partnership home visiting program can generate positive outcomes as it offers support to new mothers.