Child Maltreatment Prevention

Research shows the importance of increasing protective factors in child welfare work rather than focusing primarily on risk factors.
The growing recognition of protective factors as a critical aspect of all work with children and families is long overdue. There is strong consistency and overlap between established, ongoing, and new work which underscores the salience of this strength-based approach across many disciplines. There is a powerful synergy between what children need in order to thrive and avoid negative outcomes and what the family support and child maltreatment prevention practice community has been working toward for many years. Research bears this out.

Traditionally, child maltreatment prevention and intervention strategies have