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Multimedia resources can be used to raise child abuse prevention awareness and promote the importance of strengthening families and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.
These videos present a series of conversations intended to highlight the true value of family-focused child abuse prevention programs. Share these informative tools to engage both community partners and families in supporting families and children.
These videos offer testimony from parents on why supportive prevention programs and services matter. Their stories highlight how receiving community-based resources early allowed them to provide better care to their children and strengthen the well-being of their families and communities.
Listen to one parent's views on the importance of father engagement and how bringing dads to the table can help fathers believe in their role as parents and that they belong in their children's lives.
Hear a parent's perspective on the power of asking for help and learn how prevention services worked to support and strengthen her family.
Learn how receiving community-based resources helped one parent afford childcare, housing, and other necessities to provide a better life for his children and strengthen his family's well-being.
Learn how a parent who received community-based prevention services and supports for her young children discovered the value of patience in parenting through a parent mentor program.
Hear a parent share how receiving community-based prevention services and supports improved the well-being of her entire family.
The Children’s Bureau strengthens families, expands community supports, and advances strategies to stop maltreatment before it occurs, promoting safe, stable environments for every child.
Highlights innovative programs to prevent and respond to child maltreatment by engaging parents and communities and forming the partnerships needed to ensure the safety and well-being of all children and families.
Discover the importance of social-emotional development and mental health support strategies needed within programs supporting children and their families.
FRIENDS is an acronym for Family Resource Information, Education, and Network Development Service. It provides targeted technical assistance and training to Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention programs and organizations and strives to provide high-quality information to the general child abuse prevention community.
Watch this animated video, which discusses resilience and the importance of supporting parents. The video is part of FREINDS National Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Preventions' Sharing the Journey: Voices of Parent Leaders series.
View this animated video, which discusses how families should feel comfortable when they need to ask for help. The video is part of FREINDS National Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Preventions' Sharing the Journey: Vo ...Read More
Browse resources to help family support and child abuse prevention practitioners and organizations. The collection was created in 2022 by the parent leaders of the FRIENDS National Center Parent Advisory Council, who work in their communitie ...Read More
Find a multimedia collection that includes audio, video, and animated stories created and shared by parent leaders and practitioners nationwide.
