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Special Report: Home Visitation - 2006 (English) En Español

I n a growing number of nations the strategy of home visitation continues to be considered one of the primary ways of preventing physical child abuse and neglect. It is a sensible and straightforward strategy, and mounting scientific evidence points to home visitation as one of the most promising maltreatment prevention strategies available.

World Perspectives

Special Report: Youth Participation - 2007 (English) En Español

A Joint ISPCAN & Save the Children Publication

Participation - influence on one’s own life conditions – is essential to being fully human -- to being a rights bearing person. What do I know? What do I think? What do I feel? What do I need and desire? What can I contribute? All these are questions that require opportunities for expression and consideration if a child – a person – is to be protected and respected now.

World Perspectives

Special Report: ITPI Training Project- 2008 (English) En Español (Coming Soon)

Information and history of ISPCAN's own ITPI Training Project. These CAN teams create a working ‘system’ within communities, which enables professionals to work together effectively. Through its training programs, ISPCAN also assists professionals to learn how to prevent child abuse and neglect, recognize at-risk children and families, and dev- elop family and school support programs, such as positive parenting, anti-bullying, and home visitation programs.

World Perspectives

Special Report: Child Trafficking - 2009 (English) En Español (Coming Soon)

On January 28th through February 1, 2008, ISPCAN Executive Council and staff, in collaboration with the Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Rady Children’s Hospital of San Diego, hosted its 22nd Annual International Child and Family Maltreatment Conference in San Diego, California. This Global Institute focused on children’s rights, protection from abuse and neglect, medical treatments, offender intervention and other pertinent CAN topics.

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