child abuse prevention
Protecting young ones
Child abuse prevention encompasses efforts to stop the mistreatment, neglect, or exploitation of children before it occurs.
This includes education programs, family support services, mandatory reporting laws, and public awareness campaigns.
The phrase typically appears in policy contexts: She works in child abuse prevention, child abuse prevention training for teachers.
- warning signsIndicators of impending danger
- crisis hotlinesEmergency telephone support services
- background checksInvestigation of someone's past
- foster careSupervised substitute parenting
- home visitsService delivered at residence
early intervention · family counseling · therapeutic services · after-school programs · public awareness campaigns · parenting classes · trusted adults · speak up · mandatory reporting · break the cycle · community centers
- child protectionsafeguarding, protection laws, mandatory reporting, protective custody, welfare checks
- child welfarefoster care, foster home, protective services, CPS, foster family
- PSAsPSA, anti-smoking campaigns, PSAs, health campaigns, anti-drug ads
- youth servicesyouth development, youth groups, youth centers, youth programs, youth services
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Harm inflicted on minors
child exploitation · child endangerment · child neglect · child trafficking · pedophilia
child abuse preventionwillful blindness
Conscious avoidance of knowledge
failure to report · looking the other way · child neglect · turning a blind eye · complicity
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