WHAT IS PREVENTION?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has created a short animated video, Principles of Prevention, that can help you better understand prevention-including your role as an individual. In a hurry? No problem- download our Quick Prevention Facts.
Prevent Child Abuse Oregon advocates for the expansion of home visiting, Relief Nurseries, and parent education programs that are proven to prevent child abuse and neglect. Every family is unique and so each program plays an important role in the prevention system across the state.
Home Visiting
Home visiting programs are free and voluntary, and offer a two-generational approach proven to reduce abuse and increase the use of positive parenting practices. Proven models include Healthy Families Oregon, Nurse Family Partnership, CaCoon and Babies First! In 2021 Oregon will begin a staged rollout of a new, universal home visiting program, Family Connects.
Relief Nurseries
Relief Nurseries address the diverse needs of families through individualized case management. Children participate in therapeutic classrooms with low adult-child ratios, and families receive home visits that promote healthy parenting and child development as well as an array of other services to help promote stable and attached families.
Parent Education
Parenting education is proven to significantly improve parenting skills, including protecting kids from unsafe conditions and dealing with day-to-day stressors. The Oregon Parenting Education Collaborative supports hubs across the state that provide evidence-based parent education programs. Curriculum includes, but it not limited to, Abriendo Puertas (Opening Doors), Effective Black Parenting, Make Parenting a Pleasure, Parenting Inside Out, Parenting Now, Parents as Teachers, Positive Indian Parenting, and Triple P- Positive Parenting Program.
Home visiting programs are free and voluntary, and offer a two-generational approach proven to reduce abuse and increase the use of positive parenting practices. Proven models include Healthy Families Oregon, Nurse Family Partnership, CaCoon and Babies First! In 2021 Oregon will begin a staged rollout of a new, universal home visiting program, Family Connects.
Relief Nurseries
Relief Nurseries address the diverse needs of families through individualized case management. Children participate in therapeutic classrooms with low adult-child ratios, and families receive home visits that promote healthy parenting and child development as well as an array of other services to help promote stable and attached families.
Parent Education
Parenting education is proven to significantly improve parenting skills, including protecting kids from unsafe conditions and dealing with day-to-day stressors. The Oregon Parenting Education Collaborative supports hubs across the state that provide evidence-based parent education programs. Curriculum includes, but it not limited to, Abriendo Puertas (Opening Doors), Effective Black Parenting, Make Parenting a Pleasure, Parenting Inside Out, Parenting Now, Parents as Teachers, Positive Indian Parenting, and Triple P- Positive Parenting Program.
Professionals working to prevent child abuse and neglect have incorporated ideas and information from other disciplines, including public health, education, and mental health, to influence and guide practice.
Public health, however, has had the greatest influence in organizing a framework of prevention services. That framework consists of three levels of services:
Public health, however, has had the greatest influence in organizing a framework of prevention services. That framework consists of three levels of services:
- primary prevention programs–directed at the general population in an effort to prevent maltreatment before it occurs (universal)
- secondary prevention programs–targeted to individuals or families in which maltreatment is more likely (high risk)
- tertiary prevention programs–targeted toward families in which abuse has already occurred (indicated)
