1-019 - Perspectives for Advancing Child Maltreatment Research and Public Health Implementation

Session Type: Federal Agency Symposium

Integrative Statement

This session will focus on national priorities focusing on child maltreatment. The session will begin by providing an overview of key issues in child maltreatment research in light of the seminal 2013 Institute of Medicine Report, New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research (2013), which was published two decades after the initial ground breaking report on Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect (1993). The developmental consequences of child maltreatment, the implications of developmental patterns for interventions and service delivery systems, and the challenges for the child welfare system remain key considerations and will be explored in presentations by two of the report panel members. Next, presenters will discuss the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Essentials for Childhood prevention framework as an example of leadership to the child maltreatment and broader public health fields by promoting strategies to assure safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments for all children. These presentations will review how CDC is reframing and broadening its focus to address important contextual factors with an emphasis on health equity, including the assessment of differential access to protection resulting in differential burden of child maltreatment. Building upon knowledge including the IOM panel report, and current CDC, ACF, and NIH research, the current progress and future of child maltreatment research, policy, prevention and practice will be discussed.

Sub Unit

• SRCD Biennial Meeting

Chairs

• Cheryl Anne Boyce, National Institutes of Health

• Melissa Brodowski, Administration for Children & Families, US Dept. Health & Human Services

• Melissa Teresa Merrick, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

Presenters

• Mary Dozier, University of Delaware

• Cathy Spatz Widom, John Jay College - SUNY

• Maria Woolverton, Administration for Children and Families

• Melissa Teresa Merrick, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

• Marilyn Metzler, CDC