Courses
FRIENDS, the National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP), provides training and technical assistance to Federally funded CBCAP Programs. This site serves as a resource to those programs and to the rest of the Child Abuse Prevention community.
FRIENDS is an acronym for... Family Resource Information, Education and Network Development Services
Online Learning Community
The FRIENDS Online Learning Center is a resource designed to meet the demands of providing high quality, subject specific training free of charge for CBCAP State Lead Agencies and their grantees and others. The Online Learning Center is designed to offer accessible continuing education and professional development opportunities that are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
FRIENDS currently has courses in the areas of:
FRIENDS provides this training to everyone free of charge.
New Online Learning Center courses are announced on our listserv. You can join by sending a blank email to friendsnrc-subscribe@lists.friendsnrc.org and your email address will be added.
The FRIENDS website, www.friendsnrc.org has an extensive library of resources and a wealth of information on topics such as: collaboration, continuous quality improvement, evaluation, evidence-based programs and practices, parent leadership, protective factors and maximizing resources. Please come and visit our website.
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Our new Online Learning Center has many great features. Please click the image below to watch some short Tutorials & Tours designed to quickly familiarize you with logging in, navigation and sample course content and user interactivity.

Protective Factors Survey Overview
Promising Practices in Parent Involvement Annotated Bibliography
Constructing Rating Scales for Self-Rating and Observer Rating
Peer Review in CBCAP: A Source Document for Assessment and Best Practice
Using Qualitative Data in Program Evaluation: Telling the Story of a Prevention Program
Understanding the Common Ground Between Systems of Care and Child Abuse Prevention
CBCAP Legislation: Title II of CAPTA
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