This fact sheet from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network summarizes the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and child trauma. It also identifies policy and programmatic recommendations on how to respond to the needs of IPV survivors and their dependent children.

The National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare, a resource center jointly funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Children’s Bureau of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, has created a Child Welfare Training Toolkit. The toolkit provides guidance to child welfare professionals about substance use and co-occurring disorders within families involved in the child welfare system. The toolkit comprises 10 modules – 7 core and 3 specialized areas – that build foundational knowledge to support an understanding of substance use, identify when substance use is a factor in child welfare cases, offer strategies for parental engagement, acknowledge the effects of substance use on children and caregivers, and present steps on how to build collaborations for a system of care.

This Casey Family Programs research to practice brief provides analysis about the costs of child maltreatment and the financial benefit of prevention and early intervention services. The study identifies the costs for children who experience abuse or neglect, including the risk of involvement with the criminal justice system, developmental delays, substance abuse challenges, low academic achievement, delinquency, and teen pregnancy, as well as diminished wages and future productivity. It also offers brief summaries of child maltreatment prevention and intervention programs and return on investment for these programs with Title IV-E funds directed by the Family First Prevention Services Act.