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Overview

Beginning in late 2011, the Child Abuse Prevention Program (CAPP) began a process of reflection and consultation. This review, which concluded in late 2012, led to a reframing of the program mission statement to focus more directly on child wellbeing as the primary desired outcome and to a revision of the application of its strategy goals. The revised mission statement can be found below. To learn more about these changes and the thinking behind them, please see A New Vision for the Child Abuse Prevention Program, written by CAPP Program Director Mary Bassett.

 

Mission

The mission of the Child Abuse Prevention Program is to promote children’s healthy development and protect them from abuse and neglect.

About Doris Duke and Child Abuse Prevention

Doris Duke took a special interest in the needs of children, supporting nearly 85 child welfare organizations during her life. In her will, Doris Duke expressed her interest in "the prevention of cruelty to children."

 

 
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Resources & News

  • The third cohort of 15 doctoral student recipients of the Doris Duke Fellowships for the Promotion of Child Well-Being has been selected by a panel of experts convened by Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. 

  • The Raising of America is an upcoming documentary that explores how a strong start for all our kids leads not only to better individual outcomes but also a healthier, safer, better educated and more prosperous and equitable America. 

  • The Science of Neglect: The Persistent Absence of Responsive Care Disrupts the Developing Brain is a new working paper from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. The paper explains why significant deprivation is so harmful in the earliest years of life and why effective interventions are likely to pay significant dividends in better long-term outcomes in learning, health, and parenting of the next generation.

  • The Linking Depressed Mothers to Effective Services research, being conducted by the Urban Institute, identifies service strategies and policy reforms that can help mothers, enhance young children's development, and prevent child abuse and neglect by connecting low-income depressed mothers of young children with treatment.