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Promoting Healthy Families, Preventing Abuse:

Order your free copies of Promoting Healthy Families in Your Community: 2008 Resource Packet today!

Developed for service providers, the packet highlights strategies to strengthen families by promoting key protective factors that prevent child abuse and neglect.

It also includes tip sheets in both English and Spanish to share with parents.

The Resource Packet is produced annually by the Department of Health and Human Services' Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, Child Welfare Information Gateway, and the FRIENDS National Resource Center on Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention.

The 2008 Resource Packet was developed with input from more than 30 national organizations that work to promote healthy families.

Service providers can find additional materials in the "Preventing Child Abuse & Neglect" section of the Information Gateway website.

This web section includes resources for National Child Abuse Prevention Month, as well as information on evaluating and funding prevention programs, enhancing protective factors, and effective parenting.

The packet and corresponding poster can be downloaded or ordered at www.childwelfare.gov/preventing/res_packet_2008