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This Prevention Resource represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help preventchild abuse and neglect. These strategies include strengthening economic supports to families; changing social normsto support parents and positive parenting; providing quality care and education early in life; enhancing parentingskills to promote healthy child development; and intervening to lessen harms and prevent future risk. The strategiesrepresented in this Prevention Resource include those with a focus on preventing child abuse and neglect fromhappening in the first place as well as approaches to lessen the immediate and long-term harms of child abuse andneglect. These strategies range from a focus on individuals, families, and relationships to broader community andsocietal change. This range of strategies is needed to better address the interplay between individual-family behaviorand broader neighborhood, community, and cultural contexts.1This resource supports CDC’s Essentials for Childhood framework for preventing child abuse and neglect. In particular,it articulates a select set of strategies and specific approaches that can create the context for healthy children andfamilies and prevent child abuse and neglect (Goals 3 and 4 of the framework—see below).Commitment, cooperation, and leadership from numerous sectors, including public health, education, justice, healthcare, social services, business/labor, and government can bring about successful implementation of this resource.

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