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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?


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

Linda Baker Mary Carrasco, MD Deborah Daro, PhD
Linda Baker
Director, FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention
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Mary Carrasco, MD
Director
International and Community Health, Pittsburgh Mercy Health System
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Deborah Daro, PhD
Research Fellow
Chapin Hall Center for Children
University of Chicago
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J. Paige Greene Pete Hershberger Elba Montalvo
J. Paige Greene
Executive Director
Richland County CASA
South Carolina
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Pete Hershberger
Arizona State Representative
Arizona House of Representatives
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Elba Montalvo
Executive Director
The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, Inc.
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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.


PDF fileRead the Full Document (contains all 6 author responses)

PDF fileLinda Baker
PDF fileMary Carrasco
PDF fileDeborah Daro
PDF fileJ. Paige Greene
PDF filePete Hershberger
PDF fileElba Montalvo

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