title: Preventing rural child abuse: progress in spite of cutbacks.
abstract: Professionals in a rural community started a service delivery program not in spite of, but because of, economic distress, to counteract the increase in child abuse caused by economic depression. Public education is shown to be a necessary tool in the establishment of new services.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002669:Child Welfare; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D007629:Kentucky; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education; D012423:Rural Health; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D012947:Social Work