Child Maltreatment
Resource Brief
- Childhelp®: National Child Abuse Hotline. Crisis intervention, information, and referrals to thousands of emergency, social
service, and support resources. The hotline is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days
a week with professional crisis counselors who, through interpreters, can provide
assistance in 170 languages. All calls are anonymous and confidential. Telephone:
(800) 422-4453.
- National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC): 24-Hour Hotline. A hotline to assist the public in reporting missing and exploited children and in providing information leading to the location of these children. Telephone: (800) 843-5678 (800-THE-LOST).
- Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): National Sexual Assault Hotline. Confidential crisis intervention, support, and information 24 hours a day in partnership with rape crisis centers across the country. Telephone: (800) 656-4673 or online interface.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Child Maltreatment Prevention. Information and resources about preventing physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect by a parent, caregiver, or another person in a custodial role (e.g., clergy, coach, teacher). Includes definitions, data, risk and protective factors, prevention strategies, and information about the consequences of child maltreatment.
- Child Welfare Information Gateway. Resources about child abuse and neglect,
including definitions, identification of signs and
symptoms, statistics, risk and protective
factors, perpetrators, the impact on individuals
and society,
and child fatalities. Includes
resources about preventing
child abuse and neglect
and responding
to child abuse and neglect.
Some resources are available in
Spanish.
- Child Welfare League of America (CWLA). Background information, facts and statistics, and publications about child maltreatment and child protection. Includes legislative information and advocacy tools about child welfare services.
- FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention. Training and technical assistance information and resources for staff at federally funded
community-based child-abuse-prevention programs and for other professionals working
to prevent child maltreatment and to support families. Includes teleconferences,
webinars, online training programs, evaluation tools, publications, a conference
calendar, and a listserv.
- National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
Information and resources about missing children, child molestation, child pornography,
and child prostitution for parents and guardians, child care providers, law-enforcement
officers, and the media. Some materials are available in Spanish.
- Prevent
Child Abuse America. Program and research information
and materials
that promote positive parenting
and a community-wide approach to
child abuse prevention. Includes contact information
for state chapters.
- Stop It Now! Education materials, media messages, training tools, and community-based program strategies about child sexual abuse prevention.
- Hibbard RA, Desch LW, and the Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect and the Council
on Children with Disabilities. 2007. Maltreatment of Children with Disabilities. Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). [Clinical report].
- Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Brookings Institution.
2009. Preventing Child Maltreatment. Princeton, NJ: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; Washington,
DC: Brookings Institution. (The Future of Children; v. 19, no. 2; Fall 2010). [Journal, executive summary, policy briefs, article summaries].
- Child Abuse organizations list
- Domestic Violence knowledge path (Includes the section Children Exposed to Domestic Violence), family resource brief
- Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Health Challenges in Children and Adolescents knowledge path (Includes the section Inappropriate Use of Seclusion and Restraints), family resource brief, school resource brief
- Home Visiting resource brief
- Social and Emotional Development in Children and Adolescents knowledge path, family resource brief, school resource brief
Child Maltreatment: Resource Brief. (July 2011).
Author: Susan Brune Lorenzo, M.L.S., MCH Library.
Reviewers: Lauren Agoratus, M.A., Family Voices and Family-to-Family Health Information Resource Center at the Statewide Parent Advocacy Network of N.J.; Olivia Pickett, M.A., M.L.S., MCH Library; Judi Siegel, L.I.C.S.W., Children's Hospital Boston; Sandy Swan, M.L.S., M.P.H., C.H.I.S., Phil Johnson Historic Archives and Research Library.
Editor: Ruth Barzel, M.A., MCH Library.
