Framework Resources

Publications

Fact Sheet:

• Essentials for Childhood Framework: Fact Sheet  pdf icon[258 KB, 1 Page]
  CDC’s Essentials for Childhood Framework fact sheet includes information about the strategies, goals, and steps that build the foundation of safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments for children.

CDC Reports:

• Essentials for Childhood: Steps to Create Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships and Environments for All Children pdf icon[24.3 MB, 36 Pages]
  This document describes a framework to guide community activities that will support safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments for children and their families.
  Supplements: 
  • Building Community Commitment for Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships and Environments pdf icon[6 MB, 16 Pages]
    This publication introduces nine key elements of successful efforts that raise awareness and build commitment for safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments.
  • Promoting Positive Community Norms pdf icon[1 MB, 12 Pages]
    This guide provides information about creating a context for increasing safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments for children and families by promoting positive community norms.
  • Boost Your Competitive Edge: Actions for a Healthy, Productive Workforce pdf icon[5 MB, 12 Pages]
    This resource outlines actions your organization, no matter what size or shape, can take to ensure a healthier and more productive workforce, now and into the next generation.
• Suggested Practices for Journalists Reporting on Child Abuse and Neglect  pdf icon[2.65 MB, 12 Pages]
  This guide explains how journalists can impact prevention by expanding the focus of stories about abuse or neglect of children to include information on the causes of the problem and ways to prevent it.
• Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Leveraging the Best Available Evidence pdf icon[4 MB, 40 Pages]
  This document is designed to help states and communities take advantage of the best available evidence to prevent ACEs. It features six strategies from the CDC Technical Packages to Prevent Violence.

General Resources

CDC Trainings and Tools:

• ACEs Trainings
  These online trainings are designed to help users understand, recognize, and prevent ACEs from occurring in the first place. There is an introductory Training Module as well as modules with information for professionals working directly with and on behalf of kids and families.
• Connecting the Dots
  A free, online training that helps users implement prevention strategies that address shared risk and protective factors across multiple forms of violence.
• EvaluACTION
  A tool designed for people interested in learning about program evaluation and how to apply it to their work.
• Making the Case: Engaging Businesses Training
  A free online resource that explains how users and their communities can work with the business sector to assure safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments for all children and families.
• Principles of Prevention
  Online training on how to apply key concepts of primary prevention, the public health approach, and the social-ecological model for violence prevention work.

For more free, online trainings, tools, and resources, see CDC’s VetoViolence website