Citation

Krugman RD, Poland L. Child Adolesc. Soc. Work J. 2019; 36(1): 15-17.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10560-018-0589-6

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Abstract

In an effort to accelerate the changing of social norms with regard to how the public and professionals view child abuse and neglect in the United States, we incorporated the National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect in January 2018. The mission of the Foundation is to end child abuse and neglect in our lifetime. The National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect (EndCAN) is unlike any other organization that has entered into the human services field. EndCAN enters the field not as a new organization that will impede and encroach on others, or compete for scarce funds. Instead, it will focus on unifying the field, supporting it by collaborating with foundations in health and education related areas such as heart disease, cancer, suicide, obesity, and zero to three in order to improve research, prevention, education, training, and advocacy. EndCAN has two goals. First, change the public and professional's perception of child abuse and neglect as a primarily social and...

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