Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect: A Technical Package for Policy, Norm, and Programmatic Activities

This technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help prevent child abuse and neglect.  Strategies include:

• Strengthening economic supports to families
• Changing social norms to support parents and positive parenting
• Providing quality care and education early in life
• Enhancing parenting skills to promote healthy child development
• Intervening to lessen harms and prevent future risk

This technical package supports CDC'sEssentials for Childhoodframework for preventing child abuse and neglect. The range of strategies and approaches have been included to represent different levels of social ecology with efforts intended to impact the community and societal levels as well as individual and relationship levels.