Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect
If you had $5 million to spend each year for the next five years to prevent child abuse and neglect in the U.S., how would you spend it?
If you had $5 million to spend each year for the next five years to prevent child abuse and neglect in the U.S., how would you spend it?On behalf of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Child Abuse Prevention Program, the RAND Corporation's Promising Practices Network asked six professionals knowledgeable about child abuse and neglect prevention to answer the following question: If you had $5 million to spend each year for the next five years to prevent child abuse and neglect in the United States, how would you spend it?
The authors represent a variety of backgrounds and perspectives. Each author has written a thoughtful response to the question and taken together, the set of papers offers a broad range of innovative ideas and strategies to make a significant impact on the prevention of child abuse and neglect.
On this page, we give you the opportunity to learn about the authors, read the authors' responses, and provide comments on the papers, or submit your own response to the question.
About the Authors
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Linda Baker
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Mary Carrasco, MD
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Deborah Daro, PhD
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J. Paige Greene
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Pete Hershberger
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Elba Montalvo
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Read the Authors' Responses
Follow the links below to read the authors' responses to the question, If you had $5 million to spend each year for the next five years to prevent child abuse and neglect in the United States, how would you spend it?
Responses are available below in a single file, or individually by author, and link to PDF files on the RAND Corporation website. Adobe Reader software is required to view these PDF files.
In the section below, you can submit a comment about any or all of the authors' responses, or submit your own response to the question.
Submit Your Comments
More About This Topic
Visit PPN's Research in Brief page on Child Abuse and Neglect.
Visit PPN's Programs that Work section to read summaries of programs that have improved outcomes for children related to child abuse and neglect.

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