Get Ready for National Child Abuse Prevention Month!

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April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month!

Explore Resources to Help Your Agency Do Things Differently!

National Child Abuse Prevention Month (NCAPM) is just around the corner! As we prepare to uplift and raise awareness of the importance of family and community-driven approaches to preventing child abuse and neglect, visit the 2024 NCAPM website to discover resources, get involved in nationwide efforts, and spread the word about this year’s theme, Doing Things Differently: Moving From the Challenge to the Change.

The Capacity Building Center for States (Center) offers resources and supports to help child welfare agencies engage families, young people, and individuals with lived experience and build prevention-focused systems. Explore the Center’s Prevention and Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) webpages to learn more.

Find Resources

Featured Resources

Videos and Podcasts:

Reflecting on Racial Equity and Prevention-Focused Systems

Check out our Reflecting on Racial Equity and Prevention video and discussion guide to help your agency integrate racial equity and lived expertise throughout the prevention planning processes and tackle inequities in child welfare to become a better learning and equity-focused organization.

Watch the videos in our Prevention Planning Roundtable series to hear more about successful approaches and lessons learned from state leaders as they moved from planning to action.
Listen to all 4 episodes of A Look Inside Sharing Power in Child Welfare, a podcast series by and about people with lived experience in child welfare and their partnerships with leaders within child welfare agencies.

Tools, Publications, and Briefs:

Building Capacity to Address Common Challenges

Check out our frequently updated Evidence-Based Programs and Services in Approved State Prevention Program Plans snapshot to find where evidence-based programs and services are currently being implemented to prevent children from entering foster care.
Use our Building Capacity to Address Common Challenges tool to help prepare your agency’s prevention planning team for overcoming the adaptive challenges that many states face when they develop and implement prevention plans.
Read our Working Across a Prevention Continuum to Strengthen Families publication to learn what a comprehensive, prevention-focused approach is and how to establish a common understanding of what it should look like among staff, community partners, and other stakeholders.

Featured Series:

Explore the other resources in the Prevention Planning Into Action series to support your agency’s prevention planning efforts and move prevention plans forward.

Visioning for Prevention Protecting Children Through Strengthening Families

Use the resources in our Visioning for Prevention: Protecting Children Through Strengthening Families series to build foundational knowledge about prevention-oriented systems, find examples of real-life strategies, and spark conversations among staff and stakeholders.

Looking for More Support?

Connect With Your Peers

The FFPSA Prevention Plan Leaders (FPPL) Peer Group brings together state office leaders and their teams virtually to support the development and implementation of their Title IV-E Prevention Program plans. Members can connect with peers in other states and jurisdictions to share and hear about lessons learned, effective practices, and strategies to support planning and implementation of prevention services.

Visit our Peer Groups webpage to learn more about membership.

Join A Peer Group

Speak With an Expert

Have a question? Our team of national experts are here to help you implement provisions of the FFPSA (e.g., title IV-E prevention plans) and build prevention-focused systems. Candice Ward, Program Area Manager for Prevention and FFPSA, is available to address questions related to available Center and federal supports for prevention strategies as well as FFPSA implementation.

Learn more about Candice and schedule a virtual meeting on the Center’s Meet the Center’s Experts webpage.

Schedule a Virtual Meeting

Get Hands-On Support

Need customized support? Find a Tailored Services Liaison who can help your agency create a support plan and mobilize needed expertise for prevention planning and implementation.