2012 Preventing Child Maltreatment and

Promoting Well-Being: Network for Action

The 2012 Preventing Child Maltreatment and Promoting Well-Being: Network for Action meeting was held on April 17, 2012 at the Washington Hilton in Washington D.C. The 2012 Network for Action Meeting was held in conjunction with the Children's Bureau 100 years and the 18th National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect.

The 2012 Network for Action Meeting was sponsored by the Office on Child Abuse and Neglect (OCAN), at the Children's Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Violence Prevention's Knowledge to Action Child Maltreatment Prevention Consortium Leadership Group (K2A); and other national organizations and networks that support prevention efforts.

To facilitate conversations at the state and regional level, Regional Breakout sessions were held.

To see a list and description of the grant clusters that attended the meeting, click here.
To see a list of participants registered for the Network for Action meeting by state, click here.
To see a breakdown of states by Federal Region, click here and click here for a listing of participants by grantee type by region.
In addition to state attendees, there are several persons representing national organizations registered for the meeting, click here to see a listing of those participants.

Vision Video

At the first Network for Action meeting in 2011, everyone participated in creating a vision for the prevention of maltreatment and promotion of well-being for children across the nation. The vision lives in a video that is available here. The video has been accessed more than 1000 times. We also invite you to use it as you: Encourage and motivate individuals, communities, and organizations that are already committed to preventing maltreatment.

Open dialogue with the public.
Share information with the business community.
Open and close meetings—large and small.
Invite new funders and volunteers into your programs.
Speak to policy makers and legislators.
Keep your own energy and commitment high, when challenges seem overwhelming.

Please let us know what creative ways you have found to use this inspiring Network for Action tool.

Strategic Projects

Any network is stronger when it focuses on real, down-to-earth action. There already exists a network made up of a diverse collection of individuals and institutions that work together to prevent child maltreatment and promote well-being. Members of the network do wonderful work alone or in small clusters. The Network for Action meeting in 2011 was designed to strengthen that natural network that already exists. The plan was to identify and encourage strategic projects that would:

Accentuate and accelerate good work that was already taking place in different parts of the network
Involve individuals and institutions from all parts of the network
Create products that could be used across the network
Represent the concerns and interests at the national scale

To learn more about this years presentations, click here.

Positive Community Norms

The opening plenary of the 2012 Network for Action meeting is titled "A New River Story: The Confluence of Spirit, Science and Action in Child Maltreatment Prevention". In this inspiring and interactive presentation, Dr. Jeff Linkenback, of Montana State University, and Dr. Robert Sege, of Boston Medical Center, will share insights from their research and personal experiences.

Dr. Linkenbach says, "The Positive is the spirit of hope and community that we all share in the knowledge that, irrespective of our temporary conditions, we can better ourselves, our cultures and the world." Dr. Linkenback and Dr. Sege have been collaborating to bring this perspective into their efforts to prevent child maltreament and promote well-being. The presentation will be based on principles of Positive Community Norms. For more information about their work and how it might affect yours, visit www.mostofus.org.

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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Before and during the meeting, Network for Action members worked to frame a shared vision for the future of the prevention of child maltreatment and the promotion of well-being. The outcome of the process was the development of a powerful vision video that can be downloaded and shared with your parent groups, staff in your organization, board members and your local and state networks. Click here to view the vision video created from this event.