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An education campaign targeting children, parents and community members in the US has been linked to a reduction in reports of child sexual abuse, according to international researchers. From 2018-2020, the state of Pennsylvania ran a child sexual abuse prevention program across five counties that included a media campaign, online and in-person trainings for 14,660 community members, an education program for second grade students that was run across 92% of school districts and parent training for 135 parents. Within a year of launching the program, the researchers say both substantiated and unsubstantiated reports of child sexual abuse were down in the five counties compared to similar Pennsylvania counties that did not have the program.
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About The Study: In this evaluation of a place-based, coordinated, countywide intervention, reports of both substantiated and unsubstantiated child sexual abuse were shown to be significantly reduced at the population level.
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