Recommended reading

Strengthen economic supports for families; Change social norms to support parents and positive parenting; Provide quality care and education early in life; Enhance parenting skills to promote health child development; Intervene to lessen harm and prevent future risk; Sector involvement; Monitoring and evaluation

"This technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help prevent child abuse and neglect. These strategies include strengthening economic supports to families; changing social norms to support parents and positive parenting; providing quality care and education early in life; enhancing parenting skills to promote healthy child development; and intervening to lessen harms and prevent future risk. The strategies represented in this package include those with a focus on preventing child abuse and neglect from happening in the first place as well as approaches to lessen the immediate and long-term harms of child abuse and neglect. These strategies range from a focus on individuals, families, and relationships to broader community and societal change. This range of strategies is needed to better address the interplay between individual-family behavior and broader neighborhood, community, and cultural contexts." (From page 7). See also the Essential for childhood framework (#4983) and THRIVES: a global technical package to prevent violence against children (#5086). For more on CDC's work to prevent child maltreatment, access the website. Record #4982