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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 • • • 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