Public Health Agencies Play a Role in Child Maltreatment Prevention

Public health agencies can make a difference in the lives and health of both children and adults by helping prevent child maltreatment.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Violence Prevention invites you to learn more by watching a webinar titled A Better Start: Child Maltreatment Prevention as a Public Health Priority

CDC initially hosted the webinar in the fall of 2009. Now, the event and associated slides are permanently available online for your convenience.

The webinar features presentations by:

• Ms. Francie Zimmerman, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation – Child Abuse Prevention Program
• Dr. Jack Shonkoff, Harvard University – Center on the Developing Child
• Dr. James Mercy, CDC – Division of Violence Prevention
  

Topics discussed include:

• The important role public health agencies can and do play in preventing child maltreatment
• The body of research linking harmful childhood experiences with long-term quality of life
• How public health agencies can prevent child maltreatment by using the concept of safe, stable, nurturing relationships
  

Visit:  http://www.ddcf.org/page.asp?pageId=840 to watch A Better Start: Child Maltreatment Prevention as a Priority.