CHDS proposes a community response program that will draw on public, private and community supports to keep kids safe. This proposal is a promising practice for preventing child maltreatment and strengthening family functioning by increasing a family's protective capacities.

The death of a child should invoke a community response. The circumstances involved in most child deaths are multidimensional, and responsibility rarely resides in one place. The ultimate purpose of child death review is to keep children and youth alive. By understanding how and why children die, our communities can take action to prevent other similar deaths. Local child fatality prevention review teams should make sure that every child death that...

"This document's purpose is to serve as an update to previous Intervention Effectiveness Reports, in order to give planners a background of research and previous effective studies with which they can frame and shape their own interventions for various populations."