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Policy makers have child welfare and targeted prevention paid little attention to the continuum of risk programs have an opportunity to reignite 18 THE FUTURE OF CHILDREN A Shift in Perspective: A Universal Approach to Child Protection the spirit of universal service delivery that feared that it represented an attempt to marked maternal and child health reforms remove children from the care of the. [...] It gave The Progressive Policy Response states incentives to establish a Bureau of In the late nineteenth and early twentieth Maternal and Child Hygiene that would centuries, state and local coffers supported manage the funds and institutionalize the most public investments in social services, public response for maternal and child health care, and education, often working health. [...] If child welfare agencies want to 26 THE FUTURE OF CHILDREN A Shift in Perspective: A Universal Approach to Child Protection play a role in primary prevention, we also Child Abuse, the Kempe Center for need a new, earlier identification system to the Prevention and Treatment of Child reach the most challenged families before Abuse, and the Children’s Division of the patterns and consequences of po. [...] Commenting on what relationship as observed in the emotional the authors’ viewed as a significant addition ties and communication between parent and to their book, Kempe and his coeditor, Ray child; parents’ skill in coping with the stresses Helfer, included the prevention section with of infant and child care, as well as the care of “great hope and expectation.” “Prevention children with special. [...] Despite concerns over the lack of on the number of parents and children uniform efficacy within and across all models, served, the demographic characteristics of prevention advocates continued to value program participants, and various service the goal of reaching pregnant women and characteristics (for example, the specific new parents and giving them the necessary evidence-based program being im.