{"id":16820,"date":"2022-04-07T10:54:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T14:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/?p=16820"},"modified":"2025-09-30T09:10:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:10:46","slug":"interview-with-jennifer-jones-msw-during-child-abuse-prevention-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/blog\/interview-with-jennifer-jones-msw-during-child-abuse-prevention-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: HOPE and the importance of child abuse prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row remove_bottom_col_margin=&#8221;true&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1752587802347{border-top-width: 20px !important;border-right-width: 20px !important;border-bottom-width: 20px !important;border-left-width: 20px !important;padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #EDEDEE !important;border-radius: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<strong>Key takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-checked=\"false\" aria-level=\"4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This interview features Jennifer Jones, Chief Strategy Officer at Prevent Child Abuse America (PCAA), the nation\u2019s oldest and largest organization committed to preventing child abuse and neglect before it happens.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-checked=\"false\" aria-level=\"4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The HOPE framework aligns with PCAA\u2019s mission to create safe, equitable, and stable environments where all children can thrive. The framework shapes their home visiting, advocacy, and communications work while reinforcing a collective responsibility for preventing childhood adversity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-checked=\"false\" aria-level=\"4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wisconsin\u2019s inclusion of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and later positive childhood experiences (PCEs) questions in their BRFSS survey provided critical data that informed policy and raised awareness. This work produced reports, collaborations, and publications that shifted the child abuse prevention field from focusing only on ACEs to recognizing the importance of positive experiences<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"vcex-spacing wpex-w-100 wpex-clear\" style=\"height:10x;\"><\/div><div class=\"vcex-toggle vcex-module\" data-animate=\"true\" data-duration=\"300\"><div class=\"vcex-toggle__heading\"><a href=\"#whats-this\" class=\"vcex-toggle__trigger wpex-transition-colors wpex-flex wpex-items-center wpex-gap-10\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"whats-this\"><div class=\"vcex-toggle__icon wpex-flex wpex-items-center wpex-justify-center\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><div class=\"vcex-toggle__icon-open wpex-flex wpex-flex-col wpex-items-center\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" height=\"1.5em\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" width=\"1.5em\" fill=\"currentColor\" class=\"vcex-toggle__icon-open\"><path d=\"M0 0h24v24H0V0z\" fill=\"none\"\/><path d=\"M19 13h-6v6h-2v-6H5v-2h6V5h2v6h6v2z\"\/><\/svg><\/div><div class=\"vcex-toggle__icon-close wpex-flex wpex-flex-col wpex-items-center\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" height=\"1.5em\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" width=\"1.5em\" fill=\"currentColor\" class=\"vcex-toggle__icon-close\"><path d=\"M0 0h24v24H0V0z\" fill=\"none\"\/><path d=\"M19 13H5v-2h14v2z\"\/><\/svg><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vcex-toggle__title\">What's this?<\/div><\/a><\/div><div id=\"whats-this\" class=\"vcex-toggle__content wpex-clr wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-my-10\"><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This interview summary was created with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI) and reviewed by the HOPE National Resource Center staff before publication. No other parts of the blog post were generated by AI. Found an error? <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/contact-hope-healthy-outcomes-from-positive-experiences\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let us know<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row remove_bottom_col_margin=&#8221;true&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\n<h2>Using the HOPE framework to promote child abuse prevention<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The HOPE National Resource Center believes that every child in each community should have access to the key types of <a href=\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/blog\/why-pces-are-important-for-all-children-and-families\/\">positive childhood experiences<\/a> (PCEs) that we call the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/positiveexperience.org\/resource\/the-four-building-block-of-hope\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Four Building Blocks of HOPE<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: safe and supportive relationships that are critical for children to develop into healthy, resilient adults; safe, stable, equitable environments to live, learn, and play; opportunities for social and civic engagement to develop a sense of belonging; and opportunities for emotional growth. <\/span>As April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, we want to share just some of the work that is moving that vision forward.<\/p>\n<p>This blog features an interview with Jennifer Jones, Chief Strategy Officer at Prevent Child Abuse America (PCAA) where she promotes child abuse prevention and positive childhood experiences in her daily work. She shares why prevention is important and how the HOPE framework supports the well-being of children and families.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please introduce yourself and your work to our readers.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My name is Jennifer Jones, and I am the Chief Strategy Officer at Prevent Child Abuse America. We are the nation\u2019s oldest and largest organization committed to preventing child abuse and neglect before it happens. We promote policies, programs, and resources informed by science that enable all kids, families, and communities to thrive \u2013 today, tomorrow, and for generations to come.<\/p>\n<p>Our signature home visiting program, Healthy Families America (HFA), is in nearly 600 sites. It is also one of the most frequently implemented models with federal Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program funding. We provide resources and support to our statewide network of Prevent Child Abuse America chapters in 43 states, and the District of Columbia, and we partner with them to advance our missions and to promote thriving children, families, and communities. Our national policy team advocates at the federal level for the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act or CAPTA, MIECHV, and other key federal programs that help support children and families. We also assist our chapters with state policy. Our communications team works closely with our state chapter network to shift the conversation away from child abuse and neglect to prevention. HFA sites to articulate, elevate, and amplify our common message and mission.<\/p>\n<p>I also have to put in a plug for Child Abuse Prevention month, which is in April! We hope everyone will join us in sharing our message and spreading the word. We have some great resources on <a href=\"https:\/\/preventchildabuse.org\/resources\/\">our website<\/a> that people can use in their efforts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you share your HOPE story? How did you hear about the HOPE framework and what made you want to get involved?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I met Dr. Robert Sege and Dr. Linkenbach in the early 2000s when I was with the Wisconsin Children\u2019s Trust Fund. We were involved in positive community norms work with Dr. Linkenbach at the time. We were also leading the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) work in the state and working with our state Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey on the ACEs optional module. Dr. Sege and Dr. Linkenbach and I were chatting about how we needed data to show the positive and resilience. So, we decided to work on getting questions about PCEs in the Wisconsin BRFSS. I have been involved ever since!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We want to experience a world where all children grow up happy and healthy in supportive families and communities. In essence, we are all about setting the context for hopeful and thriving children and families, by also tending to their living conditions.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>How does the HOPE framework fit into your work with PCAA?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our vision at Prevent Child Abuse America is hopeful\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>We want to experience a world where all children grow up happy and healthy in supportive families and communities. In essence, we are all about setting the context for hopeful and thriving children and families, by also tending to their living conditions. One of the Building Blocks, as you know is \u201csafe, equitable and stable environments.\u201d When we think about child abuse prevention and building safe, equitable and stable environments, it means addressing the conditions in which people live, work, play and grow. We do that through our home visiting program, in partnership with our state chapters, and through our advocacy work. We can also grow hope in how we talk about childhood adversity and leave people with a sense of collective responsibility. We want everyone to feel that childhood adversity is possible to solve and prevent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Being a leader on the Wisconsin BRFSS project, how did those results change how we talk about child abuse and healing?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I learned about the ACE Study in early 2000s, and brought Dr. Rob Anda, along with Dr. Bruce Perry, to Wisconsin to present on early childhood brain development, trauma, adversity, and of course ACEs. At the time, I was a child welfare policy advisor at the then Department of Health and Family Services. We started to think about strategic and intentional ways to weave that knowledge and science into our work. Dr. Perry began doing case specific consultations with our county and state child welfare workers.<\/p>\n<p>It was 2010, I was at the Children\u2019s Trust Fund then, when we first raised the funds to include the optional ACEs module into our WI BRFSS. It was the first time we had Wisconsin specific data on ACEs, and I think that really helped us in terms of public awareness and advocacy. We made specific policy and systems recommendations in that report and started to move on those. One of the findings from that survey was that 64% of those individuals that had the one ACE of growing up with a parent who was incarcerated had four or more ACEs. That really had an impact on some of us, and so we began to work with the Department of Corrections to understand the prevalence of ACEs for people in prison and to try to make some movement on services and interventions for children with incarcerated parents.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2014 BRFSS, we decided it would be important to understand poverty\u2019s impact on later mental and physical health. So, we brought together a small group of people \u2013 experts in the field, including Dr. Rob Anda, Dr. Melissa Merrick, and Dr. Kristi Shook Slack and we created a handful of questions related to poverty and neglect. Those were included in our 2014 BRFSS. And then in 2015, after several conversations with Bob and Jeff, we had the opportunity to add questions specific to positive childhood experiences, and resilience. Our window of time to get the questions on the BRFSS was short so we decided to borrow already tested questions from Dr. Michael Ungar\u2019s Child and Youth Resilience Measure. And that was the start of PCEs. We wrote a report on that data called <em>Balancing ACEs with HOPE<\/em>. Then, we partnered with Dr. Christina Bethell at Johns Hopkins University to do deeper analysis on the data and that resulted in our JAMA pediatric article \u2013 that to date has thousands of views. It has really helped inform the field and started to move us from always focusing on ACEs to now understanding that PCEs are even more important to our physical and mental health and well-being.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Prevent Child Abuse America joined forces with Social Current and FrameWorks Institute to update our 2004 prevention framing brief. It\u2019s important that in order to make the case for the policies and strategies we need to ensure that every child grows up in a safe, stable, nurturing environment \u2013 one of the Four Building Blocks of HOPE &#8211; the way we talk about childhood adversity needs to include the factors that help shape those environments, and spark a sense of realistic hope.<\/p>\n<p>We have named the campaign to implement the recommendations <a href=\"https:\/\/preventchildabuse.org\/resources\/introducing-building-better-childhoods\/\">\u201cBuilding Better Childhoods,\u201d<\/a> and we will be launching a new website on April 6th in partnership with Social Current and FrameWorks Institute that includes creative assets, a reframing toolkit and other resources for the field to use. The Building Better Childhoods campaign and website were created by 2-Story and made possible with financial support from Casey Family Programs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is still much we need to learn and know about positive childhood experiences and about implementing the HOPE framework, and we should invest our time and resources in that work. We should do more research and create more innovative approaches and strategies that focus on the positive.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>What is one thing you would want people working in child abuse prevention to know about the HOPE framework? \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our field has spent most of its young life, focused on the negative \u2013 on childhood adversity and ACEs, and that is important, and it is what we knew at the time. We thought it was critical to help people understand the problem \u2013 and now they do. We need to continue to move down the hopeful path \u2013 while not disregarding the reality of the problem of child abuse and neglect \u2013 balancing ACEs with hope if you will. There is still much we need to learn and know about PCEs and about implementing the HOPE framework, and we should invest our time and resources in that work. We should do more research and create more innovative approaches and strategies that focus on the positive and the HOPE framework.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is there anything that you would like to share that has not been asked?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently, I was on a call, and someone was talking about a survey they had conducted around ACEs. They found that 80% of the general public was unaware of ACEs and the ACEs study. Which was incredibly surprising to me because that is all you hear about in our field. But it made me think about the fact that we still have a long way to go, and we have the opportunity to reframe the conversation using the framing recommendations that child adversity is a public issue. It is solvable and it is preventable. And that leaves us all with a lot of hope!<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The interview was edited for brevity and clarity.<\/span><\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we are talking to Jennifer Jones, Chief Strategy Officer at Prevent Child Abuse America. 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