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Healthy Families America
Healthy Families America (HFA) is a family support program that embodies an infant mental health approach, with the belief that early, nurturing relationships are the foundation for life-long, healthy...
View ArticleThe Sexual Abuse of Children – Fact Sheet
Sexual Abuse of Children – what is it? Sexual abuse of a child is inappropriately exposing or subjecting the child to sexual contact, activity, or behavior. Sexual abuse includes oral, anal, genital,...
View ArticleMaltreatment of Children with Disabilities – Fact Sheet
Maltreatment of Children with Disabilities – what is it? It is generally believed that children with disabilities are abused more frequently than children in the general population. Currently, studies...
View ArticleEmotional Child Abuse – Fact Sheet
Emotional Child Abuse – what is it? Emotional child abuse is maltreatment which results in impaired psychological growth and development.1 It involves words, actions, and indifference.2 Abusers...
View ArticleChild Sexual Abuse Prevention – Resources and Research
Resources for Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Welcome to the landing page for resources dedicated to the prevention of child sexual abuse. If you have any questions about the content on this page, please...
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Infographic: Preventing Bullying with Healthy Families America
How do we achieve our goal of preventing bullying across the country? According to our research, using social-emotional learning as a tool to teach children how to manage emotions, feel and show...
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Infographic: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse
When we hear about situations like the Jerry Sandusky case at Penn State, the Miramonte Elementary School scandal in Los Angeles, or reports of a child being sexually abused in our own communities, the...
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Infographic: How Investing in Prevention is Good for Business
Are you familiar with Adverse Childhood Experiences? If so, then you know that experiencing ACEs can have lifelong effects, and that ACEs are experienced by people from all different walks of life....
View ArticleThe Estimated Annual Cost of Child Abuse and Neglect
Healthy families mean healthy children. Healthy communities. A thriving economy and strong nation. Investments in prevention support healthy child development and lower the number of children affected...
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Building Community, Building Hope: 2016 Prevention Resource Guide from the...
Our friends at the Children’s Bureau at the Federal Department of Health and Human Services have released their 2016 Prevention Resource Guide. This year’s edition, entitled “Building Community,...
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