Families involved with child welfare can often benefit from support from overlapping systems and services. With the well-researched correlation between child maltreatment and substance use, substance use treatment may positively affect parents’ abilities to care for their children. A recent … Read More
Child Maltreatment
Bipartisanship Across the Nation: A Review of State Child Welfare Legislation
Introduction Policymaking in child welfare has a long tradition of bipartisanship, with dedication on both sides of the aisle to improving outcomes for children, youths, and families. Despite progress, many troubling outcomes persist for children and families involved in the … Read More
State-level Data for Understanding Child Welfare in the United States
This comprehensive child welfare resource provides state and national data on child maltreatment, foster care, kinship caregiving, permanency, and older youth in care. The data are essential to help policymakers understand how many children and youth come in contact with … Read More
Reporting of Child Maltreatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Southern State in the United States
Child maltreatment is a serious public health issue and has major consequences for individuals, families, and society as a whole. Every year, 1 in 10 children are neglected or psychologically abused, and 4% to 16% are physically abused in high-income countries … Read More
Primary Care Interventions to Prevent Child Maltreatment
Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force Introduction Child maltreatment—abuse and neglect in childhood—can result in serious negative physical, psychological, and behavioral consequences that can span a life course and have potential effects on subsequent … Read More
Child Safety Forward Implementation Study Final Report
Executive Summary Initiative Overview In October 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) launched Child Safety Forward (CSF), a three-year demonstration initiative to develop multidisciplinary strategies and responses to address serious … Read More
Community Prevention of Child Maltreatment:
Lessons Learned and Promising Practices During the COVID-19 Pandemic The Child Welfare Community Collaborations (CWCC) initiative is a set of cooperative agreements funded by the Children’s Bureau at the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) “that support the development, implementation, … Read More
Sharing and Accessing Administrative Data: Promising Practices and Lessons Learned from the Child Maltreatment Incidence Data Linkages Project
OPRE Report; 2022-107. Varley, Beth. Wuslin, Claire Smither. Mathematica. United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. 2022 Accurate and ongoing surveillance of the incidence of child maltreatment and related risk and protective factors can … Read More
Child Maltreatment Report 2020
This report presents national data about child abuse and neglect known to child protective services agencies in the United States during federal fiscal year 2020. Release date: January 2022. Child Maltreatment 2020 is the latest edition of the annual Child … Read More
ACF Child Maltreatment Report
Child Maltreatment 2019 is the 30th edition of the annual Child Maltreatment report series. States provide the data for this report through the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS). NCANDS was established in 1988 as a voluntary, national … Read More