Re-Visioning Public Health Approaches for Protecting Children

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 Approaches to Improving Outcomes for Children Involved with Child Welfare: Youth Mentoring (Heather Taussig and Lindsey Weiler).- Chapter 20. Understanding Trauma and Child Maltreatment Experienced in Indigenous Communities (Deb Duthie, Sharon Steinhauer, Catherine Twinn, Vincent Steinhauer and Bob Lonne).- Chapter 21. Problems in Understanding Program Efficacy in Child Welfare (Melissa Jonson-Reid and Chien-jen Chiang).- Chapter 22. Re-visioning Education and Training for Child Protection using a Public Health Approach (Kerryann Walsh).- Chapter 23. A Good Fit? Ireland's Programme for Prevention, Partnership and Family Support as a Public Health Approach to Child Protection (John Canavan, Carmel Devaney, Caroline McGregor and Aileen Shaw).- Chapter 24. Collaborative Service Delivery: Catalyst to Innovation in Policy and Practice in Alberta, Canada (Rhonda Barraclough, Kim Spicer, Joni Brodziak, Kassidy Green and Bruce MacLaurin).- Chapter 25. Building Research Capacity in Child Welfare in Canada: Advantages and Challenges in Working with Administrative Data (Nico Trocmé, Tonino Esposito, Barbara Fallon, Martin Chabot and Ashleigh Delaye).- Chapter 26. Combining Public Health Approaches with IncreasedFocus on Risk and Safety: A Norwegian Experience (Bente Heggem Kojan, Edgar Marthinsen and Graham Clifford).- Part IV: Trends and Future Directions.- Chapter 27. Child Maltreatment as Social Harm (Nigel Parton).- Chapter 28. New Directions for Public Health Approaches: Key Themes and Issues (Todd Herrenkohl, Bob Lonne, Deb Scott and Daryl Higgins).

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 communities-in order to understand, and improve the circumstances of children, young people and their families-has 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 onth