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Positive Parenting Is Key to Preventing Child Maltreatment

Published by Administration for Children and Families | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Catalog Last Checked: July 31, 2026 at 09:11 PM | Dataset Last Updated: September 06, 2025
Positive parenting is a crucial part of preventing child maltreatment and child abuse and neglect. Two successful strategies, the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program system of interventions and the Circle of Parents Mutual Self-Help Parent Support Group, are described in this webinar: their structures, guiding principles, implementations, funding, training, evaluations, findings, and other aspects. Presenters: Cheri Shapiro, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor and Project Director of Building Connections at the University of South Carolina; Christie Ferris, Director of Prevent Child Abuse Florida at the Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida in Tallahassee; and Mary Kay Falconer, Ph.D., Senior Evaluator at the Ounce of Prevention Fund in Florida View Webinar (WMV - 86 MB) Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.

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