RE: Prevention of child maltreatment

[<Vincent.Palusci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: Prevention of child maltreatment

You should look at Mark Dias' work on SBS prevention, available from the National Center on SBS and the National Association of Children's Hospitals (www.nachri.org).

Vincent J. Palusci MD MS FAAP
DeVos Children's Hospital
Associate Professor
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
(616) 391-1242
fax: (616) 391-3206
Vincent.Palusci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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[mailto:owner-CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
JOSHUA PATRICK MERSKY
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:26 AM
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