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The PREVENT Child Maltreatment Institute: Enhancing Leadership

The intensive 8-month PREVENT Child Maltreatement Institute will help multi-organizational teams prevent child maltreatment before it starts. The Institute builds skills to:

Enhance leadership for child maltreatment prevention and social change
Plan, implement, evaluate and sustain evidence-based prevention efforts
Communicate effectively with policy makers, media and other stakeholders
Develop partnerships and extend networks


What are the dates for the Institute?

Part 1: July 17-19, 2006 in Chapel Hill, NC
Part 2: August to February in your home location
Part 3: March 2007 in Chapel Hill, NC (dates to be determined)

               
What are the PREVENT Child Maltreatment learning objectives?

As a result of this Child Maltreatment Institute, participants will be able to:

-- Explain the state of the evidence on how to prevent child maltreatment before
first- time perpetration or victimization.
--Identify how selected preventive strategies have worked and can be adapted to new settings.
--Articulate principles in critically examining the scientific literature with regard to child maltreatment prevention.
--Demonstrate basic skills in planning and evaluating evidence-based child maltreatment prevention efforts.
--Identify and begin working with a network of colleagues among Institute participants, instructors and coaches.

How is PREVENT Child Maltreatment Institute structured?

The three-pronged PREVENT approach to learning combines education, networking and technical assistance with 6 days of courses lead by expert faculty. Part 1 is three days of coursework and team-based activities followed by Part 2, an eight-month project back home with assistance from a coach. During this period, teams apply new skills working on an actual prevention program. Part 3 caps off the experience with three more days of courses and team presentations.



               
Who should attend?

The PREVENT Child Maltreatment Institute is designed for multi-organizational teams of 4-6 individuals with proven leadership experience in primary prevention of child maltreatment from state and local-level organizations. Teams should be built around existing or planned interventions for preventing child maltreatment before it starts. Team members will come from organizations such as: child welfare; medicine and public health; family support services; education; early intervention; social services; and child advocacy.


               

What is the PREVENT Child Maltreatment Institute curriculum?

The Child Maltreatment Institute curriculum is designed to build skills. Teams and individuals will learn to create sustainable strategies for preventing child maltreatment before it starts. On-site sessions are designed by experienced faculty with a special emphasis on application of skills to your team's goals. For more on the agenda, click here.

Your participation in PREVENT training (tuition, materials and room & board) is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  This training is available to violence prevention practitioners and their partners from the United States and US Territories. For more information on cost, click here.