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
Maltreatment
Pharmacists’ Vital Role in Identifying and Reporting Child Abuse
ABSTRACT: Childhood abuse, which manifests in adverse childhood events such as neglect and physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, is widespread in the United States. Each year, the Child Protective Services agency rescues more than one-half million children from maltreatment. Because … 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
New Child Maltreatment Report Finds Child Abuse and Neglect Decreased to a Five-Year Low
Today, the Children’s Bureau at the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF) released the annual child maltreatment report. The report reveals that of the nationally estimated 3,016,000 children who were the subject of a … Read More
Suicide Looms Large in Minds of Many Foster Youth
The suicide of any child is a tragedy, but studies show children in foster care are four times more likely than other children to attempt to take their own lives. Suicide risk is correlated with depression, lack of social support … Read More
Child Maltreatment Data Tool
Child Maltreatment Data Available Online The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has launched an online access tool of national data gathered from the Fourth National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-4): Report to Congress. The NIS-4 data, collected in … Read More
Child Abuse Deaths Rise – Child Maltreatment Report 2016
New data: child abuse deaths rise, notably in Texas, Indiana Associated Press – February 02, 2018 According to a report released this week by the Department of Health and Human Services, there were 1,700 fatalities resulting from child maltreatment reported … Read More
Toolkit on Mapping Legal, Health and Social Services Responses to Child Maltreatment
Toolkit on Mapping Legal, Health and Social Services Responses to Child Maltreatment.Jud, Andreas. Jones, Lisa M. Mikton, Christopher. Finkelhor, David. Kruger, Paul. Et al.World Health Organization. Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Crimes Against Children Research Center.2015 Link to … Read More
Child Maltreatment 2018
This report presents national data about child abuse and neglect known to child protective services agencies in the United States during federal fiscal year 2018. CLICK HERE