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“I am a member of this Coalition because – the Coalition serves as a catalyst for change to promote a world without child sexual exploitation.”  - David Lee, CALCASA/PreventConnect

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This Month's Issue: April 2012


New from the National Children’s Advocacy Center CALiO Research Library! Two new bibliographies to the research literature have been added to the
 bibliographies collection in CALiO. 

Two new bibliographies have been published: Secondary Trauma, Compassion Fatigue and Burnout among Professionals who Work with Maltreated Children as well as Disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse.
New Study from the CDC: Cost of Child Abuse and Neglect Rival Other Major Public Health Problems.

Excerpt: Child maltreatment is a serious and prevalent public health problem in the United States. In fiscal year 2008, U.S. state and local child protective services (CPS) received more than 3M reports of children being abused or neglected or about 6 complaints/minute, every day. An estimated 772,000 children were classified by CPS authorities as being maltreated and 1,740 children aged 0 to 17 died from abuse and neglect in 2008.

The financial costs for victims and society are substantial. A recent CDC study found the total lifetime estimated financial costs associated with just 1 year of confirmed cases of child maltreatment (physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse and neglect) is approximately $124B.

Published in Child Abuse and Neglect, The International Journal, the study looked at confirmed child maltreatment cases -- 1,740 fatal and 579,000 non-fatal for a 12-month period. Findings show each death due to child maltreatment had a lifetime cost of about $1.3M, almost all of it in money that the child would have earned over a lifetime if he or she had lived.
“I am well aware that child sexual abuse and exploitation are huge factors in children's health and in the broader public health. A culture that values its children, invests in its children and it’s time to invest in prevention of such abuse.” - Sharon Cooper, M.D.
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