Safe & Sound has recently updated their website with 2020 data that explores the economic impact of child maltreatment.  This year, Safe & Sound has also enhanced the section that speaks to community protective factors (including seeking racial and social justice) which nurture family strengths and allow all children to thrive.

Key features of Safe &Sound’s website include:

• Research on factors within a community that strengthen families and promote the safety of children, including social connections and racial and social justice
• Research on factors within a community that place children at greater risk for abuse, and timely data on how these factors have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic
• Child maltreatment data, including the number of substantiated and reported survivors, as well as fatalities for the state and within each county
• Calculations of the economic burden that child maltreatment costs with the state and each county
• The ability to select multiple counties in an area to see the cumulative total maltreatment costs for a region
• Comparison points placing the financial sum in context (ex, the same amount could send xxx number of children to preschool)
• A simple breakdown of how the costs are calculated

Data is available for all 58 counties in California and can be found at the following link: https://economics.safeandsound.org/.