Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention

Child abuse and neglect are serious public health problems that can have long-term impact on health, opportunity, and wellbeing. CDC works to understand the problems of child abuse and neglect and prevent them.

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

Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect: A Technical Package for Policy, Norm, and Programmatic Activities pdf icon[3.69 MB, 52 Pages, 508]

This technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help prevent child abuse and neglect. Also available in Spanish pdf icon[21 MB, 52 Pages, 508].

Learn how you can implement strategies from the technical packages with CDC’s Violence Prevention in Practice tool.

Page last reviewed: April 6, 2022