Re: Communicating Scope of Child Maltreatment

[monaghan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (dermot monaghan)]

I should try mincava in U of minnesota or Safer Society Foundation, Vt. I
believe the common figure tends to ba about 1/3 girls and 1/8 boys.
Thereabouts anyway, but i have seen figures quoted. From another source,
an inservice, :
"The most extensive study of child abuse in Canada was conducted by the
Committee on Sexual Offences against Children and Youths. Its report
indicates that, among adult Canadians, 53% of women and 31% of men were
sexually abused when they were children." Health and Welfare Canada
www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/familyviolence/html/csaeng.html

Hope some of this helps

dermot m

Karen Wade wrote:

> 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

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