Prevention

Mobile Response and Stabilization Services provides immediate support to stabilize children in crisis and keep them safe at home.

Barbara Andrade DuBransky, director of Family Supports at First 5 LA, describes the county’s constellation of home visiting programs.

This law provides opportunities for states and tribes to better serve children and families by preventing the need for foster care and supporting better outcomes for children in care. Explore these resources to learn more.

Explore how Children’s Village in New York City is offering community-based prevention services to keep children safe with their families.

Home visiting programs for new parents offer a universal approach to the prevention of child abuse and neglect. Explore Austin’s model.

This evidence brief explores the tremendous costs of child abuse and neglect and the cost-benefits of investing in prevention programs.

Learn about home visiting models that are effective in reducing child maltreatment.

This resource highlights the tremendous costs of child abuse and neglect and the benefits of investing in programs aimed at children and families.

Learn from a research study that explores whether state-level social policies impact frequency and characteristics of child protection interventions.

Explore findings from a study that suggests that strategies implemented at a neighborhood-level may effectively decrease child maltreatment.

Explore findings from a study that shares how offering material supports to families is effective in reducing maltreatment.

Learn the findings from a study that examines the effect of child care subsidies on child maltreatment.

Learn the findings from a study that examined the impact of Connecticut’s statewide home visiting program on child maltreatment.

Learn from a study that examines the effect that refundable Earned Income Tax Credits have on the rate of children entering foster care.

Explore findings from a report that outlines why a consistent and coordinated approach to child fatality data is necessary.

This strategy brief describes how New Hampshire used Requests for Information to expand and improve its prevention service array.

This brief describes how New York City offers voluntary, in-home prevention services that aim to meet family needs and ensure child safety.

This brief describes how the state of Washington offers voluntary services that aim to connect families to necessary resources.

This brief describes how New Jersey offers voluntary services that aim to meet family needs and ensure child safety and well-being.

This overview summarizes the work of jurisdictions that provide voluntary child welfare services that aim to strengthen families.

This brief describes voluntary services offered to families in Oklahoma that aim to meet family needs and ensure child safety.

Learn about findings from a study that explores the effect that four social policies and programs can have on child poverty.

Learn how leadership in New Jersey developed an array of home visiting programs to meet the diverse needs families with young children.

This packet provides information about evidence-informed programs that aim to keep children safe and families together.

Discover how the SafeCare home visiting program effectively supports positive parenting practices and reduces incidents of maltreatment.

Understand how the Family First Prevention Services Act supports Indiana’s commitment to deliver evidence-based services to families.

Understand how access to fundamental and tangible economic supports can strengthen families and reduce child maltreatment.

Learn how the Nurse-Family Partnership home visiting program can generate positive outcomes as it offers support to new mothers.

Review findings from an article describing how child removal decisions are based on inconsistent standards and practices among states.

Learn how Texas invested in primary and secondary prevention programs to prevent child maltreatment using a public health framework.

Learn from research that explores how policies that reduce child poverty would result in lower involvement with child protective services.