The recent release of a report on child maltreatment prevention is the product of a long-term collaboration between researchers and graduate students at UW-Madison.
The research team is a collaborative effort among UW–Madison Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) and the School of Social Work (SSW) with child welfare specialists at the Children's Trust Fund of the Wisconsin Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board, the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, and the State Department of Children and Families.
The report, What It Will Take: Investing in Wisconsin’s Future by Keeping Kids Safe Today, follows the fall 2009 release of Child Maltreatment Prevention: Toward an Evidence-Based Approach, which provides a review of the latest research on what approaches work best for children and families.
SSW doctoral student Katie Maguire Jack, lead author of What It Will Take, worked with Professor Kristen Shook Slack, SSW and IRP, and SSW graduate student Leah M. Gjertson on Child Maltreatment Prevention.
Slack notes, "Together, these reports along with a series of briefs on child maltreatment prevention on the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families Web site, should generate a lot of discussion about child maltreatment prevention efforts around the state and help local agencies to use their limited resources to the best effect for Wisconsin children and their families."