Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention

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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.

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Fast Facts
Risk and Protective Factors
Prevention Strategies
Abusive Head Trauma
Program: Essentials for Childhood
Data and Research: Violence Against Children Surveys
Resources
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
Content source: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Violence Prevention