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Sustaining Progress in Preventing Child Maltreatment: A Transformative Challenge

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Child maltreatment prevention efforts continuously evolve as developers learn from past efforts and adjust to current realities. For many years, changes in context and family circumstances has been gradual, requiring prevention planners to make relatively modest changes in their strategies and overall approach. Today, the COVID-19 pandemic presents significant challenges to those utilizing prevention services as well as those charged with developing them. The purpose of this chapter is to take stock of where the prevention field is at and to identify those areas that offer the richest opportunities for doing better in these times of great uncertainty. Beginning with a prevention history, the chapter examines the various stages through which the field has evolved and the gains each stage has produced. The chapter highlights primary accomplishments in four areas – concentrating prevention efforts on strengthening early parent-child relationships and early child development; investing in evidence-based program models with demonstrated success in achieving targeted outcomes; expanding implementation research that focuses on program replication; and creating effective service delivery systems capable of sustaining and extending prevention’s reach. The chapter concludes with a discussion of COVID’s programmatic and policy challenges and how the field might use these challenges to identify new opportunities.

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Daro, D. (2022). Sustaining Progress in Preventing Child Maltreatment: A Transformative Challenge. In: Krugman, R.D., Korbin, J.E. (eds) Handbook of Child Maltreatment. Child Maltreatment, vol 14. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82479-2_20

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