Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect
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| Strategy |
Approach |
| Strengthen economic supports to families |
- Strengthening household financial security
- Family-friendly work policies
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| Change social norms to support parents and positive parenting |
- Public engagement and education campaigns
- Legislative approaches to reduce corporal punishment
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| Provide quality care and education early in life |
- Preschool enrichment with family engagement
- Improved quality of child care through licensing and accreditation
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| Enhance parenting skills to promote healthy child development |
- Early childhood home visitation
- Parenting skill and family relationship approaches
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| Intervene to lessen harms and prevent future risk |
- Enhanced primary care
- Behavioral parent training programs
- Treatment to lessen harms of abuse and neglect exposure
- Treatment to prevent problem behavior and later involvement in violence
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One major way I would measure success would be by the decreasing number of child abuse cases and the overall response/follow up once a report has been given.