Child Abuse & Neglect Prevention & Intervention

The Children’s Bureau supports programs, research, and monitoring systems that prevent child abuse and neglect while ensuring that children who are victims receive treatment and care.

We provide funding to states and tribes to help them strengthen families and prevent child abuse and neglect. Our funding also provides for child abuse and neglect assessment, investigation, prosecution and treatment activities.

Child Abuse and Neglect Programs include:

• Promoting Safe and Stable Families
  - The Court Improvement Program
• Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA)
• CAPTA discretionary fund
• CAPTA State grants
• Community-Based Grants for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (CBCAP)
• The Children's Justice Act (CJA)
• The Abandoned Infants Assistance Program

Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Systems

CB collects case-level data on reports of child abuse and neglect and analyzes the data. We make our reports available to the public and provide an annual report to Congress.

Reporting systems include:

• The National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS)
  • Child Welfare Outcomes Report to Congress
  • Child Maltreatment

Child Abuse and Neglect Training and Technical Assistance

Through our Training and Technical Assistance Network, we help states and tribes with the following:

• Child protection
• Prevention of child maltreatment
• In-home services for families
• Assistance for infants at risk of abandonment

For more Training and Technical Assistance information, see:

• The National Resource Center for Child Protective Services
• The National Resource Center for In-Home Services
• The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect
• The National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center
• The National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention