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The University of Oregon’s Center for the Prevention of Abuse and Neglect (CPAN) and The Ford Family Foundation recently released a first-of-its-kind evaluation of child sexual abuse prevention programming in rural Oregon and Siskiyou County, Calif.

The report detailed the impact of Protect Our Children, a community-based training program that increases knowledge about child sexual abuse and promotes ways to combat it. Beyond measuring individual-level impacts, it also documents systems-level changes.

Child sexual abuse and related trauma are compounded by a culture of silence. Among hi...