Taking a School-Based Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program to Scale: a Cost Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Cost analyses are used to determine overall costs of implementing evidence-based programming and may help decision makers determine how best to allocate finite resources. Child sexual abuse (CSA), regularly viewed as a human rights violation, is also a public health concern estimated to impact 27% of females and 5% of males by age 18. Universal, school-based CSA programs are one prevailing prevention strategy. However, there are no known cost analyses of school-based CSA prevention programming, thereby limiting potential scalability. Using the ingredients method, this cost analysis presents the findings of implementing Safe Touches, an evidence-based universal prevention program, across four sites (i.e., counties) in one mid-Atlantic state. Reaching a total of 14,235 s grade students, resu

SUBMITTER: Shipe SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11318369 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature