Data Points: Child Abuse

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*Sources:

Child Welfare Organizations by State

https://www.childwelfare.gov/organizations/?CWIGFunctionsaction=rols:main.dspList&rolType=custom&rs_id=5

CDC on Child Abuse Prevalence

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childabuseandneglect/vacs/onebillion-children.html

CDC Fast Facts on Child Abuse 

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childabuseandneglect/fastfact.html

Child Sexual Abuse Disclosure Rates

https://www.d2l.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Child-Sexual-Abuse-Disclosure-Statistics-and-Literature-Review.pdf

Child Sexual Abuse Prevalence & Statistics

https://www.d2l.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Updated-Prevalence-White-Paper-1-25-2016_2020.pdf

California Partnership to End Domestic Violence

https://www.cpedv.org/

Children’s Assessment Center

https://cachouston.org/about-the-cac/a-message-from-our-director/

Domestic Violence Action Center

https://domesticviolenceactioncenter.org/about/

Futures Without Violence

https://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/our-mission/

Child Welfare.gov on The Consequences of Abuse

https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubpdfs/long_term_consequences.pdf

Child maltreatment, 19 September 2022, World Health organization https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/child-maltreatment  

Peterson C, Florence C, Klevens J. The economic burden of child maltreatment in the United States, 2015. Child Abuse Negl. 2018 Dec;86:178-183. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.09.018. Epub 2018 Oct 8. PMID: 30308348; PMCID: PMC6289633. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30308348/ 

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