Strategies to Reduce Child Abuse and Neglect

How early childhood programs help prevent child abuse and neglect:Excellent early care and education programs use common strategies to build the protective factors known to reduce child abuse and neglect.

Quality Early Care and Education Program strategies that: Lead to the Five Protective Factors: Which lead to:
  • Facilitate friendship and mutual support
  • Strengthen parenting
  • Respond to family crises
  • Link families to services and opportunities
  • Facilitate children’s social and emotional development
  • Observe and respond to early warning signs of child abuse or neglect
  • Value and support parents
  • Parental resilience
  • Social connections
  • Knowledge of parenting and child development
  • Concrete support in times of need
  • Social and emotional competence of children
 PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE
& NEGLECT!

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