RE: Prevention of child maltreatment

["Sandi McLeod" <SMcLeod@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In 2001, the Office on Child Abuse and Neglect and the Children's Bureau initiated an effort to share information on new, innovative prevention programs that demonstrate positive outcomes for children and families.  A result of this initiative is the publication, "Emerging Practices in the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect" (http://nccanch.acf.hhs.gov/topics/prevention/emerging/report/index.cfm).  Emerging Practices identifies evidence-based effective practices in child abuse and neglect prevention. Exemplary prevention programs were nominated for the project and reviewed by an advisory group of experts.





From: JOSHUA PATRICK MERSKY [mailto:jpmersky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:26
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
Subject: Prevention of child maltreatment


Greetings,

We are writing to request references for any evaluation studies of 
maltreatment (primary) prevention programs. We have already collected 
evaluations of home visitation programs (e.g., Olds and colleagues), but 
are still searching for community-based and school-based programs that may 
reveal prevention effects on maltreatment outcomes.

We are conducting a literature review on behalf of the Chicago Longitudinal 
Study (CLS) in order to better understand our findings  which indicate that 
the Chicago Child-Parent Center Program was associated with a significant 
reduction in substantiated child maltreatment  (Reynolds, A. & Robertson, 
D. 2003).

If anyone knows of empirical studies of prevention/intervention programs 
that test maltreatment as an outcome, we would appreciate learning of them.

Sincerely,

Joshua Mersky
Research Asst., CLS