Re-Visioning Public Health Approaches for Protecting Children

Features emerging systemic, policy and practice theory, and critical analysis concerning the development of public health approaches for the prevention of child maltreatment in various jurisdictions
Captures the complexity in addressing the variety of ideological, institutional and historical issues in protection children
Examines the increased attention focused upon public health approaches to prevent maltreatment and provide earlier interventions to assist vulnerable and struggling families and communities
Offers new insights conceptualizing public health approaches to raise more awareness of delivering services for child protection

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Prof. Bob Lonne Professor Lonne has a distinguished professional, management, research and academic career, with a primary focus on protecting children from maltreatment and developing earlier intervention and prevention strategies. He co-authored the Routledge publications 'Reforming Child Protection' (2009) and the follow up 'Working Ethically in Child Protection' (2016) which have influenced debate and critical analysis world wide of the processes and outcomes of the social and institutional arrangements used to prevent maltreatment and support struggling families. He has a longstanding commitment to the area of child protection and its service-delivery and workforce issues, and has authored and presented extensively on related issues in social work and the human services. Professor Lonne has participated and contributed to policy forums at the state and federal levels, and internationally and is recognized by Inquiries as an expert witness in relation to child protection systems. He has been a passionate advocate for earlier intervention and prevention strategies, highlighting how current approaches fail many children and contribute to poor life outcomes for children in state care. Professor Lonne was the National President of the Australian Association of Social Workers from 2005-2011.

Dr. Debbie Scott is a multidisciplinary researcher with nursing and public health background. Her early work as a nurse and public health injury prevention professional has led to a unique perspective to approaches in child protection and child well-being. Debbie has contributed to more than 100 peer review papers, manuscripts and government reports and is an experienced speaker, presenting at local, national and international conferences including a number of keynote and invited papers. Debbie was the manager of the Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit, using surveillance data to inform policy on product safety, driver licensing for adolescents and toddler drownings, for example. She has extensive experience in the linkage of larger administrative data sets and health classifications, participating in the development of ICD-11 for child maltreatment coding of health data. She has worked in a number of academic and government settings. Her current work as a Senior Research Fellow for Monash University, Australia is focused on the intersection of child protection, family violence, mental health and alcohol and drugs.

Prof. Daryl Higgins is the Director of the Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University. He is located at the St Patrick's (Melbourne) Campus. He was formerly the Deputy Director at the Australian Institute of Family Studies, where he has led innovative knowledge translation/exchange functions that have increased access to the evidence base for policy makers and practitioners working to protect children and promote family and community well-being. His work has focused in articulating thepublic health approach to safe family environments, and strategies for building child-safe organisational environments. Engagement between the research, policy and practice communitiesin order to understand, and improve the circumstances of children, young people and their familieshas been his passion for more than 25 years. As an academic and a senior commonwealth public servant, Daryl has contributed to more than 230 publications and over 440 presentations and media engagements. He has provided advice to key influential bodies on child protection, family policy, and population-level public health approaches to child safety and wellbeing, in Australia and internationally.

Todd I. Herrenkohl, PhD is Professor and Marion Elizabeth Blue Professor of Child and Family at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. Formerly, he was Professor and Co-Director of the 3DL Partnership at the School of Social Work, University of Washington. His scholarship focuses onthe correlates and consequences of child maltreatment, risk and resiliency, and positive youth development. His funded studies and publications examine health-risk behaviors in children exposed to adversity, protective factors that buffer against early risk exposure, and prevention. An international scholar, Dr. Herrenkohl works with policy makers, school and child welfare professionals, and community partners to increase the visibility, application, and sustainability of evidence-based programs and practices in prevention, social emotional learning, and trauma-responsive care.

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Part I: The Policy and Program History of Child Protection.- Chapter 1. The Successes and Limitations of Contemporary Approaches to Child Protection (Daryl Higgins, Bob Lonne, Debbie Scott, and Todd Herrenkohl).- Chapter 2. Stakeholder's Experiences of the Forensic Child Protection Paradigm (Helen Buckley, Morag McArthur, Tim Moore, Erica Russ, and Tania Withington).- Chapter 3. Assessing the Outcomes of Alternative Care and Treatment Responses (Amy Conley Wright and Melissa Kaltner).- Chapter 4 'Everybody's Responsibility': Exploring the Challenges of Community Engagement in Child Neglect (Nigel Parton and Sasha Williams).- Part II: Conceptualising Public Health Approaches.- Chapter 5. Changing and Competing Conceptions of Risk and their Implications for Public Health Approaches to Child Protection (Nigel Parton).- Chapter 6. Using an Injury Prevention Model to Inform a Public Health Approach to Child Protection (Carol W. Runyan and Desmond K. Runyan).- Chapter 7. Intersecting Forms of Child Victimization and Public Health Prevention (Todd I. Herrenkohl and J. Bart Klika).- Chapter 8. How Universal Services Provide the Foundation for Effective Public Health Universal Services: The Foundation for Effective Prevention (Deborah Daro and Cara Karter).- Chapter 9. Families Private and Sacred: How to Raise the Curtain and Implement Family Support from a Public Health Perspective (Daryl Higgins, Matt Sanders, Bob Lonne and Dominic Richardson).- Chapter 10. Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Strategies for Population-Level Change: Challenges and Future Directions (Antonia Quadara).- Chapter 11. Youth-Serving Organization Safety Risks and the Situational Prevention Approach (Keith Kaufman, Marcus Erooga, Daryl Higgins and Judith Zatkin).- Chapter 12. How Can Differential Response Inform a Public Health Approach to Child Maltreatment Prevention? (Lisa Merkel-Holguin, Tamara Fuller, Marc Winokur, Ida Drury and Bob Lonne).- Chapter 13. Bringing a Health Equity Perspective to the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (Joanne Klevens and Marilyn Metzler).- Chapter 14. Critiques of a Public Health Model in Child Maltreatment (Mel Gray and Leanne Schubert).- Part III: Addressing Operational and Systemic Issues.- Chapter 15. What are the Risks and Obstacles in Implementing a Public Health Approach to the Well-Being and Protection of Children? (Maria Harries and Melissa O'Donnell).- Chapter 16. The Role, Importance and Challenges of Data for a Public Health Model (Debbie Scott and Agatha Faulkner).- Chapter 17. Understanding the Neighbourhood and Community Factors Associated with Child Maltreatment (Paul Bywaters).- Chapter 18. Framing Child Protection as a Public Health Law Issue (Donald C. Bross and Ben Mathews).- Chapter 19. Innovative Ap…