Healthy Families America Works to
Prevent Child Maltreatment
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines child maltreatment as “… any act or series of
acts of commission or omission by a parent or other caregiver that results in harm, potential for harm,
or threat of harm to a child,” and identifies several risk factors associated with the act.
Risk Factors
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Social isolation
Family disorganization, dissolution, and violence, including intimate partner violence
Parenting stress, poor parent-child relationships, and negative interactions
Centers for Disease Control
Here in Arkansas and nation-wide, Healthy Families America (HFA), is working hard to address these
factors and to help prevent child maltreatment and other
adverse childhood experiences. As of March 30, 2015 there
Study on HFA Effectiveness
were 298 active families in the Arkansas program, which is
funded through the federal M