Child sexual abuse prevention programs: what makes them effective in protecting children?
1989
In order to protect children, educators and parents need to know what works. An evaluation was conducted on the Safe Child Personal Safety Training Program which is conducted by the Coalition for Children, Inc. through a grant from the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. The evaluation was completed on 670 children, ages 3 through 10, from rural, urban and suburban schools in three states. The most important finding was that the Safe Child program consistently enabled children to demonstrate skills associated with reduction of risk for child abuse, and that they were able to learn the skills as early as preschool years. Implications for programming suggest that: prevention education should 1) be experientially-based 2) begin in preschool years 3) give children the information and skills they need--nothing more. Evaluation should be an inherent part of every prevention program.
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