Children, Youth and Families
Resource
Thursday, April 23, 2020
09:00AM - 12:30PM EST
WEBINAR
Panel 1 - Participant WordCloud
Panel 1 - Participant WordCloud
A National Dialogue
Preventing child abuse and neglect is a collective effort. The COVID-19 public health crisis is requiring our systems and families to rapidly adapt to changing environments. Protecting children requires bringing together people, systems, and technology to strengthen families and build the capacity of community-based services.
Leading child welfare experts and stakeholders joined our national dialogue on April 23 in observance of National Child Abuse Prevention Month. The event featured two panels, with discussions covering how systems can be transformed to protect children, efforts underway during the COVID-19 pandemic, and what programs and services are supporting and building the evidence for community-driven efforts in prevention.
Speakers
Moderator: Alisa Santucci, MS, LCMFT, Principal Associate, Abt Global
Panel 1 – Webinar #1: Transforming Systems to Protect Children
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. ET
- Jerry Milner, DSW, Associate Commissioner, HHS/ACF/ACYF/Children’s Bureau
- J. Bart Klika, Ph.D., Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Prevent Child Abuse America
- Teresa Rafael, MSW, Executive Director, Children’s Trust Fund Alliance (formerly the National Alliance of Children's Trust and Prevention Funds)
- Vivek Sankaran, J.D., Director, Child Advocacy Law Clinic, University of Michigan Law School
Read the transcript of Panel 1 (PDF)
Watch the Panel 1 video:
Panel 2 – Webinar #2: Supporting Community-Driven and Evidence Building Prevention Efforts
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. ET
- Allison Hyra, Ph.D., Project Director, Community Collaborations to Strengthen and Preserve Families Project, Abt Global
- Deborah Northburg, M.A., Sr. Director, CITC Child & Family Services, Community Collaborations to Strengthen and Preserve Families Grantee, Cook Tribal Inlet, Anchorage, AK
- Raven Sigure, FRIENDS National Center Parent Advisory Council Member
- Valerie Spiva Collins, Ph.D., Director, FRIENDS National Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention
Read the transcript of Panel 2 (PDF)
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Event Brochure
Please view the event brochure to learn more about our speakers and Abt’s work.
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Expanding Evidence on Recovery and Reunification Interventions for Families
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Abt To Help Prevent Child Maltreatment and the Need for Foster Care Placements
Rockville, Md. – Abt Global was recently awarded two projects to proactively help families, communities and child welfare systems prevent child abuse, neglect and the need for foster care placements. Both projects are funded by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.The Building Capacity To Evaluate Community Collaborations To Strengthen and Preserve Families project will support four communities that received grants from ACF to build a continuum of services designed to prevent child abuse and neglect. Abt will provide evaluation technical assistance to grantees and their evaluators and will document the ways each grantee designs and implements its unique community-level, child-safety approach.The Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse, developed in accordance with the Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018, was established by ACF to systematically review research on programs and services intended to provide enhanced support to children and families and prevent foster care placements. As the lead for the Clearinghouse, Abt will rate programs and services as promising, supported or well-supported practices. These practices will include mental health, substance abuse prevention and treatment services; in-home, parent skill-based programs; and kinship navigator services.“These projects draw on Abt’s combined expertise in systematic evidence reviews, evaluation technical assistance and child welfare to take an important step forward in preventing child maltreatment,” said Mary Joel Holin, division vice president, Social and Economic Policy.Contact UsQuestions about the Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse? Please contact PreventionServices@abtassoc.com.
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