“Preventing Child Maltreatment: Volume 19, Number 2, Fall 2009”
The volume explores research on policies and programs designed to prevent child maltreatment. It includes an assessment and discussion of specific prevention programs with evidence of effectiveness, including community-wide prevention efforts, parenting programs, home-visiting programs, drug and alcohol treatment and school-based educational programs on sexual abuse.
The contributors -- composed of experts on child abuse and prevention -- argue for increased efforts to collect evidence on the effectiveness of prevention programs, in part by constructing programs in ways that makes it possible to evaluate rigorously their effects. They also argue for increased funding for prevention programs, particularly by strengthening early childhood programs and improving the quality of child care.
The volume was published on October 1, 2009. It was produced by The Future of Children, a collaboration of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the Brookings Institution.
