About Prevent Child Abuse America

PCA America’s state chapter network provides state-level leadership, advocacy, and coalition building. They also implement programs to strengthen families, such as Connections Matter and Circle of Parents. Many are also implementing or advocating for Healthy Families America and the home visiting field at large. State chapters are great partners in our work, and we are thankful for them!

At PCA America,  we advocate for a wider set of policies and services to strengthen families and communities, promote healthy child development, and prevent child abuse and neglect before it happens. PCA America has recently advocated for important issues such as the child tax credit and increasing available funding communities can use for home visiting programs like HFA.

PCA America emphasizes the critical importance of research in analyzing and studying what’s working and not working, with a focus on improving the systems and supports for children and families.   This includes broader issues such as paid family leave and childcare subsidies.

The more we know, the better we can advocate for policies and programs that will positively impact the lives of children and families across the country.

PCA America’s Theory of Change brings changemakers across the country together to center families as partners in decision-making, transform the narrative on and create a shared value for prevention, build and leverage evidence and influence to advocate for effective policies, programs, and practices, and amplify collaborative learning and adaptive action.