Program Outcome: Safety

Students in Preschool through Grade 3

Primary Prevention use: Families with children aged 0-5 years. Secondary Prevention use: Families with children aged 0-5 years who have risk factors for child maltreatment such as parental depression or substance abuse

Parents of families who have been reported to the child welfare system for child maltreatment including physical and emotional maltreatment in addition to child neglect; may be used as a court-ordered parenting program

Parents with intellectual and/or significant learning disabilities (ID/LD)

Parents with learning difficulties who are the main caregivers of a child less than five years old

Parents with learning differences whose children are at risk of being neglected due to parenting skill deficiencies including parents who learn best with a step-by-step approach, such parents with learning difficulties related to intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, low literacy, and acquired brain injury. The program may be helpful to all parents, other caregivers, and babysitters who need to learn parenting and child-care skills.

Families must have at least one child age birth through 17 years in the home (services may also be offered prenatally), be considered at-risk for abuse (either through presence of dynamics common in abusive families or the presence of substantiated abuse or neglect), and be willing to participate in services

For parents and caregivers of children from birth to age 16

Children ages 3-17 and their parents (or caregivers) in families where parents engage in a continuum of coercive parenting strategies and children may present with PTSD symptoms, depression, behavioral problems and other difficulties

Preadolescent children (ages 9-11) who have current or previous child welfare involvement due to one or more adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)