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Multimedia can be used to raise child abuse prevention awareness and promote the importance of strengthening and empowering families 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 thriving families and children.
These videos offer testimony from parents on why easy and equitable access to prevention resources matters. Their stories highlight how receiving community-based resources early on allowed them to provide better care to their children and strengthen the well-being of their families and communities.
Listen to why community-based prevention services and supports are important from a parent's perspective.
Listen to why community-based prevention services and supports are important from a parent's perspective.
Listen to why community-based prevention services and supports are important from a parent's perspective.
Listen to why community-based prevention services and supports are important from a parent's perspective.
Listen to why community-based prevention services and supports are important from a parent's perspective.
The Center for States helps public child welfare organizations and professionals build the capacity necessary to strengthen, implement, and sustain effective child welfare practice and achieve better outcomes for children, youth, and families.
Watch a video that discusses and explores the existing connection between racial equity and prevention-focused systems. Use the accompanying discussion guide to reflect individually and to facilitate a team conversation.
Engage child welfare staff and agency partners with this animated video and open a dialogue examining the language, patterns of thought, and messaging to further support strengthening families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
This video explores the Capacity Building Center for States’ commitment to promoting racial equity; intersectionality; and disparity reduction for children, youth, and families through shared vocabulary.
The Children’s Bureau Learning and Coordination Center (CBLCC, formerly CANTASD) provides logistics and strategic communication services to support peer learning, meetings and events, and multimedia resource development on issues relevant to the full spectrum of child welfare.
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.
Highlights the importance of social emotional development and mental health support strategies needed within programs serving children and their families.
FRIENDS is an acronym for Family Resource Information, Education, and Network Development Service. They provide Targeted Technical Assistance and Training to the Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP) Community. We also strive to provide high-quality information to the general child abuse prevention community.
Part of FREINDS National Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Preventions' Sharing the Journey: Voices of Parent Leaders series, this animated video discusses the resilience of and importance of empowering parents.
Part of FREINDS National Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Preventions' Sharing the Journey: Voices of Parent Leaders series, this animated video discusses how families should feel comfortable when they need to ask for help.
Created in 2022 by the parent leaders of the FRIENDS National Center Parent Advisory Council (PAC) who work in their communities and nationally to help family support and child abuse prevention practitioners and organizations.
This multimedia collection includes audio, video, and animated stories created and shared by parent leaders and practitioners nationwide.
