Child Abuse & Neglect
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.
The following are our child abuse and neglect programs:
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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 & Neglect Reporting Systems
The Children’s Bureau 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 following:
Child Abuse & 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 information about training and technical assistance, you can visit the following resource centers:
- 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
Federal Inter-Agency Work Group on Child Abuse & Neglect
The amendments to the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) of 1988 created a Federal Inter-Agency Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect.