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Behavioral interventions designed to prevent child maltreatment are plentiful; however, in the United States more than 600,000 children are determined to be victims of child maltreatment annually. Parents involved with the child protective service system who are then referred to parent education programs are frequently met with lengthy waitlists and/or competing demands on their time to complete the program. This suggests that parent education programs designed to prevent child maltreatment are not sufficiently effective and suffer from sizable implementation challenges, including cost or time. Thus, it is a public health priority to develop more effective interventions that reach a higher proportion of children and families.
Dr. Kate Guastaferro from Penn State University will highlight the way in which the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) may be applied to the field of child maltreatment prevention to design more effective interventions that are also affordable, scalable and efficient. Dr. Guastaferro is a candidate for the Associate Professor position to help build our program in intervention optimization and participate in the leadership of the Intervention Optimization Initiative.
Join her on Zoom by clicking the link below and using the passcode: 887185