National SafeCare® Training and Research Center
SafeCare Research
SC is a well-supported parent-training program with single-case, quasi-experimental studies, and RCTs in progress. Specifically, there have been over 60 research studies conducted to develop and validate SafeCare or extensions of it. In terms of child maltreatment outcomes, Lutzker and colleagues (2002) compared families receiving SafeCare services to families receiving standard family preservation services in California, and found that SafeCare families were significantly less likely to have a recurrence of child maltreatment (15% over three years) compared to services-as-usual families (44% over three years). This means there was a 75% reduction in future reports to CPS for maltreatment in families that participated in SafeCare. To review SafeCare publications or our current research projects, please click on the links below.
Ongoing SafeCare Research Grants