title: Children Exposed to Abuse in Youth-Serving Organizations: Results From National Sample Surveys.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Protecting children in youth-serving organizations is a national concern.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To provide clinicians, policymakers, and parents with estimates of children's exposure to abuse in youth-serving organizations.
  
  
  METHODS
  Telephone survey data from the 3 National Surveys of Children's Exposure to Violence (2008, 2011, and 2014) were combined to create a sample of 13,052 children and youths aged 0 to 17 years. The survey participants included youths aged 10 to 17 years and caregivers of children aged 0 to 9 years.
  
  
  METHODS
  Items from the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the combined sample of 13 052 children and youths aged 0 to 17 years, the rate of abuse by persons in youth-serving organizations was 0.4% (95% CI, 0.2-0.7) for the past year and 0.8% (95% CI, 0.5-1.1) over the lifetime. Most of the maltreatment (63.2%) was verbal abuse and only 6.4% was any form of sexual violence or assault.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Abuse in youth-serving organizations was a relatively rare form of abuse, dwarfed by abuse by family members and other adults.
authors.affiliation: Crimes Against Children Research Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shattuck
authors.affiliation: Crimes Against Children Research Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Finkelhor
authors.affiliation: Crimes Against Children Research Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham.
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Turner
authors.affiliation: Sewanee the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.
authors.forename: Sherry
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hamby
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D017028:Caregivers; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003255:Consumer Organizations; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States; D014754:Violence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*