Communicating Scope of Child Maltreatment

["Karen Wade" <kwade@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm helping a children's services agency executive director to develop
an overview of the child maltreatment field for his board of
directors' strategic planning purposes. He wants to communicate as
simply and understandably as possible the scope of the problem in the
U.S. He doesn't believe the national incidence and prevalence
statistics will communicate the message he's wanting to convey--the
pervasiveness of a problem that touches many people. He's looking for
something very concrete (tough in our work) along the lines of "it is
estimated that 1 in XX people has experienced some form of child
maltreatment by the age of 18" 

Has anyone done this type of national survey where all forms of child
maltreatment (including neglect) are collapsed and boiled down to this
type of estimate? Or, does anyone know of any secondary analyses of
data that has come up with this type of "neat" finding? 

Thanks very much.

Karen

Karen Beck Wade, Ph.D., Director
ChildStrength Research  Project
WestEd
4665 Lampson Ave.
Los Alamitos, CA 90720
tel  (562) 799-5139
fax (562) 799-5151
 kwade@WestEd.org