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SafeCare
SafeCare is an evidence-based training curriculum for parents who are at-risk or have been reported for child maltreatment. Parents receive weekly home visits to improve skills in several areas, including home safety, health care, and parent-child interaction. The following resources offer information on the SafeCare program and its effectiveness, including State and local examples.
National SafeCare Training and Research Center
College of Health and Human Sciences, Georgia State University
Improves the training, implementation, and translation of the SafeCare model in collaboration with communities, child welfare administrators, and policymakers to increase support and resources for evidence-based practice and the prevention of child abuse and neglect on a local, national, and international scale.
SafeCare
Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Provides a brief program model description, a review of studies, evidence of effectiveness, and a summary of findings by outcome domain.
Iterations of the SafeCare Model: An Evidence-Based Child Maltreatment Prevention Program (PDF - 81 KB)
Edwards & Lutzker
Behavior Modification, 32(5), 2008
Describes the history of the SafeCare model, critical features and factors involved with program implementation, populations that have received SafeCare services, and staff who have implemented the program. The article also briefly describes projects involving SafeCare in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Georgia.
Prevention of Child Maltreatment in High-Risk Rural Families: A Randomized Clinical Trial With Child Welfare Outcomes
Silovsky, Bard, Chaffin, Hecht, Burris, Owora, et al.
Children and Youth Services Review, 33(8), 2011
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Shares results from a randomized clinical trial of SafeCare® training augmented for rural high-risk population, and compares them to standard home-based mental health services to examine reductions in future child maltreatment reports, as well as risk factors and factors similar to child maltreatment.
Project SafeCare: Improving Health, Safety, and Parenting Skills in Families Reported For, and At-Risk for Child Maltreatment (PDF - 1500 KB)
Gershater-Molko, Lutzker, & Wesch
Journal of Family Violence, 18, 2003
Examines the effectiveness of parent training in health-care skills, parent-child interaction, and maintaining low-hazard homes.
Reducing Child Maltreatment: A Guidebook for Parent Services
Lutzker & Bigelow (2002)
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Describes protocols developed and tested within Project 12-Ways and Project SafeCare and includes information on assessing families and their homes, structuring training sessions, enhancing parent-child interactions, and more.
Using Recidivism to Evaluate Project SafeCare: Teaching Bonding, Safety, and Health Care Skills to Parents (PDF - 1310 KB)
Gershater-Molko, Lutzker, & Wesch
Child Maltreatment, 7(3), 2002
Details the finding that families who received training through Project SafeCare had significantly lower reports of child abuse and neglect than families in a comparison group.
State and local examples
Project SafeCare: Issues in Replicating an Ecobehavioral Model of Child Maltreatment Prevention
Filene, Lutzker, Hecht, & Silovsky (2005)
In Child Victimization: Maltreatment, Bullying and Dating Violence, Prevention and Intervention
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Describes the process used to disseminate the Project SafeCare program in Oklahoma, and reviews the program's components and methods used to address implementation challenges such as agency resources and training, the skill level and attitudes of staff, and cultural sensitivity.