This document discusses services that aim to prevent child maltreatment and support families. It covers several key points: 1. Preventive services include programs that educate expecting and new mothers, as well as services that are oriented towards the future and emphasize empowerment and enhancing quality of life from a developmental perspective. 2. Preventive services are grounded in an ecological perspective and aim to prevent predictable problems, protect health and functioning, and promote well-being through a strength-based approach. 3. Family structures like single-parent homes, gay families, and teen pregnancy present different challenges and risks for child maltreatment that preventive services and family support programs seek to address.

1. UNIT 1: CHAPTER 1
UNIT 2: CHAPTER 3: SERVICES TO PREVENT MALTREATMENT & SUPPORT
FAMILIES
Importance of, >> for children to grow up in healthy environments
Diff family structures (single parent, gay, teen pregnancy) ea. Face different
challenges
GROUP ASSIGNMENT #3:AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILY
Use txt description & compare to family you know
Identify risk (increase likelihood that children are at risk for child maltreatment)
& protective factors (positives, drive for succeeding strengths) **RESPECT
Community services available to your family
Identify level or preventive services
Characteristics of family support services
OBJECTIVES:
Describe of explaining:
1. Special charac. Of diff family structures & implications for sowk practice in
preventing child maltreatment & enhancing family functioning
2. The def. & attributes of preventive services & levels of prevention
3. Attachment theory,social learning theory&ecological framework, as applied to
prevention
UNDERSTANDING PREVENTIVE SERVICES:
Educating expecting mothers
Educate mothers on postpartum once they’ve given birth
Preventive services-refers to any program aimed to prevent child maltreatment
Attributes of preventive services
Oriented to the future
Grounded in the ecological perspective
Are there jobs in the community? Do they have access to services?
Emphasizes empowerment (not necessarily change specific population)
Enhance quality of life, using a developmental approach. (according to child’s
age)
Talk to your children with guidance instead of pushing; child needs to feel a sense
of independence; CANNOT BE TOO COMPLIANT
Ability for parents to restore relationship with their adolescent children
PREVENTION- “coordinated actions seeking to prevent predictable problems, to protect
existing states of health & functioning and to promote desired potentialities in
individuals & groups in their physical and socio cultural setting over time.”
PROMOTION of well-being, uses a strength-based approach building on the positive
characteristics in the target population or environment that could be enhanced. Family
support services.

2. (Early Intervention program (0-3): children who show signs of altered or slower
development stages
Therapeutic nursery program; ages 3-5)