Child Abuse Prevention Month
April 2003

Featured Publications

Your Child's Mental Health: What Every Family Should Know
This brochure describes practices parents can use to nurture children's mental health and provides information on the signs and causes of emotional difficulties. Also explains how to get help.
Publication Number: CA-0001

Your Child's Mental Health: 12 Questions Every Parent Should Ask
This fact card provides a list of questions for parents to ask themselves about their child's behavior and mental well-being and includes a list of resources for children's mental health.
Publication Number: FAST FACT1

Child Maltreatment 2001
This report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families presents national data about child abuse and neglect known to child protective services agencies in the U.S. during 2001.

Nine Steps to More Effective Parenting
This publication offers steps to guide parents toward positive methods of discipline and the use of other parenting skills that nurture self-esteem in young children and adolescents.

Child Fatalities Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides statistics on the number of child abuse cases that result in death. Also discusses issues of reporting and use of terminology related to child fatalities, as well as prevention efforts in some States.