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Evidence-Based Programs and Child Maltreatment: How can we get the “most juice from the squeeze”?

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

John Lutzker, Ph.D. , Center for Healthy Development; Institute of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Katelyn Guastaferro, MPH , Center for Healthy Development; School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
The high incidence and well-documented sequelae of child maltreatment makes it a public health priority. The multi-level risk factors for child maltreatment exemplify the socioecological model of health. For more than half a century, intervention research has allegedly addressed these needs through myriad evidence-based programs delivered those at-risk for maltreatment.

In light of epidemiologic trends, the question becomes, how can we be sure those who are in need are getting all that they need from the available menu of evidence-based parenting intervention programs?

This presentation will describe the current child maltreatment epidemiological trends and examine them among evidence-based programs. Specifically highlighted will be SafeCare®, an evidence-based parent-training intervention for families at risk with children from birth-to-five. Implementation of evidence-based parenting programs will be reviewed and suggestions for the future will be discussed.

Learning Areas:

Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Public health or related research
Social and behavioral sciences

Learning Objectives:
Explain child maltreatment in the context of the socioecological model of health. Describe EBPs addressing child maltreatment, specifically highlighting SafeCare, and their impact on risk factors. Discuss future intervention implementation strategies to best meet the needs of families at high-risk for child maltreatment.

Keyword(s): Evidence-Based Practice, Child Abuse

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have worked in evidence-based programs reducing the risk of child maltreatment for the past five years and coordinated several large trials. Additionally I have published on the topic with my co-presented, John R. Lutzker.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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