Alabama Department of
Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention
Children’s Trust Fund of Alabama

Initiatives

Safe Sleep

It is important to keep your baby safe while sleeping. We’ve outlined some safe sleep resources below, including simple guidelines to help you create a safe sleep environment for your baby. Additionally, our agency supports two safe sleep initiatives that are available to Alabama parents: Cribs for Kids and Baby Box.

Mandatory Reporting/Erin’s Law

The agency served a vital role in the passage and implementation of Erin’s Law in Alabama. The goal of the law is to provide students, school personnel and parents with skills to reduce vulnerability and encourage them to report the suspected sexual abuse. Erin’s Law mandates that school personnel complete Mandatory Reporter training annually. Through the work of Erin’s Law and the Mandatory Reporter law, the agency continues to protect Alabama’s children.

Strengthening Families

Strengthening Families™ is a research-based, cost-effective strategy to increase family stability, enhance child development and reduce child abuse and neglect. The five protective factors are the foundation of Strengthening Families™ and have been shown to make positive outcomes more likely for young children and their families, and to reduce the likelihood of child abuse and neglect.

Prevention

As the state chapter of Prevent Child Abuse America, we are dedicated to promoting resources and services that prevent all types of child abuse and neglect and improve overall child-wellbeing in our state.