Actually, the Annie E. Casey Foundation has quite a few programs that work with communities to do true child abuse prevention, including parent education, preventing teen pregnancy and building healthy communities so that children, who may be born into families that are very healthy, don't have to live in violent neighborhoods.
I think that many of our county and state child protective service systems traditionally wait until a child suffers for a while before intervening. However, there's a movement to change that. One of the child welfare agencies on the cutting edge of transforming to a trauma-informed agency is in San Diego County.
-- J.