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April 29, 2009

Positive Parenting Is Key to Preventing Child Maltreatment

Presenters: Cheri Shapiro, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor and Project Director of Building Connections at the University of South Carolina; Christie Ferris, Director of Prevent Child Abuse Florida at the Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida in Tallahassee; and Mary Kay Falconer, Ph.D., Senior Evaluator at the Ounce of Prevention Fund in Florida

Positive parenting is a crucial part of preventing child maltreatment and child abuse and neglect. Two successful strategies, the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program system of interventions and the Circle of Parents Mutual Self-Help Parent Support Group, are described in this webinar: their structures, guiding principles, implementations, funding, training, evaluations, findings, and other aspects.

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February 23, 2009

Connecting the Dots to Prevent the Sexual Abuse of Children Through Collaboration

Presenters: Pat Patrick, Vice President of Prevention and Education, Darkness to Light; Deborah Donovan Rice, Executive Director, Stop It Now!

This webinar explored how the collaboration of child welfare organizations can strengthen and fortify efforts to prevent child sexual abuse. Representatives from two such organizations discussed their methods and successes in research, promoting community awareness and involvement, training and education, juvenile justice, funding strategies, and more.

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November 19, 2008

Promotion, Prevention, and Treatment: Reducing the Risk and Impact of Maltreatment on Very Young Children

Presenters: Nancy Seibel, Director, Center for Training Services, ZERO TO THREE; and Lucy Hudson, Director, Court Teams for Maltreated Infants and Toddlers Project, ZERO TO THREE

Early experiences profoundly shape and have lifelong affects in developing the person we become. The mission of ZERO TO THREE is to promote the health and development of infants and toddlers. The presenters described how that mission keeps them in touch with the cutting edge of clinical knowledge and experience in order for them to develop a range of practical approaches that child welfare practitioners can use in working with very young children and their families.

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October 15, 2008

Safe Start Initiative: Working to Help Children Exposed to Violence

Presenters: Kristen Kracke, SafeFutures Coordinator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice; and Elena Cohen, Safe Start Center

In this webinar, the presenters talk about children's exposure to violence as witnesses in the context of child abuse and neglect. The Safe Start Initiative conducts a range of intervention approaches at 15 sites, and combines existing child welfare and domestic violence prevention systems to improve access to the quality of services for children.

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August 28, 2008

Is It Injury or Neglect? Improving Our Knowledge to Better Protect Children

Presenters: Steven Wirtz, California Department of Public Health; Theresa Covington, National Center on Child Death Review; and Stephanie Biegler, Child Abuse Prevention Council of Sacramento, Inc.

This webinar presenters discussed efforts to better define neglect in the context of accidental injury and described models of child death case reviews that will lead to improved understanding, reporting, and prevention strategies.

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August 12, 2008

The Protective Factors Survey: A Tool for Prevention Programs to Measure Change

Presenters: Casandra Firman, from the National Resource Center for CBCAP; Elenor Buffington, Karin Chang-Rios, Jackie Counts, and Heather Rasmussen from the Institute for Educational Research and Public Service, University of Kansas; and Toby Hyman and Jodi Tyson from the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services.

The Office on Child Abuse and Neglect seeks to build its capacity for evaluating the programs of its grantees for the prevention of child abuse and neglect. In this webinar, findings discussed in this survey include data that show caregivers high in protective factors have greater physical health.

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July 17, 2008

Supporting Military Families

Presenters: Karen Morgan and Tib Campise from the Department of Defense Family Advocacy Program

The Department of Defense is keenly aware of the needs of military families whose members are serving overseas. The presentation outlines the department’s prevention programs and how they are geared to provide support to active duty and reserve component members and their children, youth, and families. Among the resources mentioned are Military OneSource, the Military and Family Life Consultant Program, and MilitaryHOMEFRONT.

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June 11, 2008

Applying Evidence-Based Practice in Communities of Color

Presenter: Vickie Ybarra, RN, MPH, Director of Planning and Development, Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic

This session demonstrated one community-based organization's experience in implementing a variety of evidence-based and promising practices in a community of color, some with adaptation and some without. The presenters examined interventions from a perspective of "culturally grounded" or not, and overlaid them on the newly developed FRIENDS Integrating Evidence-Based Practices into CBCAP Programs: A Tool for Critical Discussions.

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May 21, 2008

Strengthening Families 201: Sustaining and Deepening State Strengthening Families Efforts

Presenter: Nilofer Ahsan, Center for the Study of Social Policy

This call was primarily for those states that have incorporated Strengthening Families as part of their child abuse and neglect prevention efforts. Strengthening Families is a strategy for engaging early care and education providers and others working with families with young children in building protective factors that have been shown by research to be connected to child abuse and neglect prevention. The call included discussion of new resources; new tools and new directions that can help states sustain and deepen their existing Strengthening Families work.

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April 23, 2008

Parent Training Programs to Prevent Childhood Behavior Problems: What Components Are Most Helpful?

Presenters: Sandra Alexander, M.Ed. and Jennifer Wyatt Kaminski, Ph.D.

This session presented results from a recent systematic review of parent training programs that are intended to prevent behavior problems among children aged 0-7. Presenters discussed the implications of the findings and the translation of the the results for child maltreatment prevention.

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March 27, 2008

Secondary Data Analysis From the National Survey on Child and Adolescent Well-Being

Presenters: Barbara J. Burns, Ph.D., Duke University School of Medicine; Sandra Jee, Ph.D., University of Rochester Medical Center; and Dana Schultz, Ph.D., Rand Corporation

This webinar highlighted several research projects conducting secondary analysis on the National Survey on Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW), a study funded by ACF's Office of Planning Research and Evaluation (OPRE). This survey is a five-year longitudinal study of 5501 children who had contact with the child welfare system. Research using NSCAW data informs policy and practice in child welfare services and other services to maltreated children and their families, and advances the state of knowledge in child maltreatment, child welfare, child and family services, and/or child development for high-risk children.

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