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Prevention Planning
There are few shared tools for prevention planning that are used widely across, states, jurisdictions and communities. This not only means that individual prevention planning bodies must spend time and energy recreating tools and processes that others have developed, but it is harder for the field to share and compare data and information. In this innovation stream we explore tools and strategies to support prevention planning at state and community levels that can be adapted to your circumstances.
Featured Resources
Child Maltreatment Prevention: A Planning Framework for Action
This guide, developed by noted child maltreatment prevention researcher Deborah Daro based on work with two states, Colorado and South Carolina, provides a comprehensive guide to prevention planning at state and local levels.
NCAPM 2022 Webinar: Healthy Social-Emotional Development in Early Childhood: A Cornerstone of Primary Prevention
This webinar reinforced the Administration's commitment to fostering healthy well-being during the critical infant, toddler, and pre-school years as a proactive, prevention approach that promotes positive long-term outcomes for children and their caregivers.
Parent and Community
Asset Survey
This short survey helps you learn from parents about the community supports and resources they use.
Complete List of Resources
Videos and Social Media
- Preventing Child Neglect Training Video Series
The Preventing Child Neglect training series raises public awareness and understanding of child maltreatment, its causes, protective factors that help shield children and families, and manageable steps that each of us can take to help reduce the likelihood of child neglect.
Tools and Tip Sheets
- Child Maltreatment Prevention: A Planning Framework for Action
This framework provides a comprehensive guide to prevention planning at state and local levels. The following resources are included in the Framework document, but are also provided here as easily sharable tools and handouts:
Digital Dialogue Recordings
- New Strengthening Families in a Changing Climate: Family Support in a Changing World
In this Digital Dialogue, we talk about how the family support field can respond and bring a family-centered lens, relational tools, and strengths-based practices to conversations about climate change, sustainability, and environmental justice. - Asking for Help is a Sign of Strength: Changing Social Norms About Help Seeking
Discover how encouraging families to seek help can be centered as a child maltreatment prevention strategy. - Family and Child Well-Being System: Economic & Concrete Supports as a Core Component
This presentation examined the well-established link between economic hardship and child welfare involvement—especially neglect. - NCAPM 2022 Webinar: Healthy Social-Emotional Development in Early Childhood: A Cornerstone of Primary Prevention
This webinar reinforced the Administration's commitment to fostering healthy well-being during the critical infant, toddler, and pre-school years as a proactive, prevention approach that promotes positive long-term outcomes for children and their caregivers. - Laying the Groundwork: Paid Family Leave as a Prevention and Promotion Strategy
New data shows that policies to provide universal concrete and economic supports to families can have a powerful impact on child abuse and neglect prevention and broader family well-being. This Digital Dialogue covered one such strategy—paid family and medical leave. It explored what research tells us about the impacts of these concrete supports and provided information about one state’s journey to a statewide policy. - Planning for Prevention Month: Mobilizing Support for Families During Challenging Times
This presentation discussed how it is more important than ever to use National Child Abuse Prevention Month (NCAPM) to mobilize communities to wrap around and support families. - Race Equity Within Our Prevention Work
Practitioners at the national, state, and local level discuss how we can concretely bring a race equity lens to our prevention work.
External Resources
Partners
- Prevention-Focused Systems
The Center for States
Explore the Center’s resources to learn more about preventing maltreatment, preventing foster care entry, and increasing child and family well-being by strengthening families in their communities before problems occur or escalate. - Logic Model Resources
FRIENDS
FRIENDS has a wealth of resources that can assist in Logic Model construction for prevention services. - Developing and Sustaining Prevention Programs
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Find resources on this page that provide overviews of child abuse and neglect, the Title IV-E prevention services - Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA)
The Center for States
The Center for States helps child welfare agencies implement the FFPSA. Explore Center resources to learn more about key provisions of the FFPSA and find tips and strategies to support implementation.
