Safe Home: Creating Safe and Beneficial Environments for Children Background: Child abuse is a subjective term that can have multiple meanings and definitions. However, for the purposes of this article, child abuse will consist of the following definition. “Child abuse is any act committed or omitted that endangers or compromises the health and physical or emotional development of a child. Child abuse includes any harm done to a child that cannot be reasonably explained and which often consists of an injury or series of injuries that appear to be non-accidental in nature.” The most well-known forms of child abuse include the following: physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, and emotional abuse (Childhelp, 2014). Among developed countries, the United States is one of the most notorious countries for the amount of child abuse that occurs. To illustrate the severity of this problem, an incidence of child abuse is reported every ten seconds. Additionally, more than four children die every day due to child abuse (Childhelp, 2014). It is clear that child abuse has become a serious epidemic requiring nationwide attention and treatment. To address this issue, I created a program called Safe-House: Creating Safe, Beneficial Environments for Children. Throughout this article, the program will be called Safe-House for shortening purposes. Program Description: Safe-House is a multi-level prevention program that has numerous goals in hopes of reducing the amount of child abuse occurring in America. It is an institute financed both by the government and privately. The program has many general objectives and specific objectives for each phase of prevention. Safe-House's headquarters are located in Baltimore, Maryland. However… half of the paper… worries society like homelessness. Ultimately, this would eliminate the billions of dollars that child abuse costs Americans each year. (2014, May). Help for children. National statistics on child abuse. Social Problems by Maureen R. Waller and Raymond Swisher, vol. 53, no. 3 (August 2006), pp.392-420Moran, P. and Ghate, Deborah. (2005). The effectiveness of parenting support. Children and Society, 19(4), 329-336.Paek, H., Hove, T., Kim, M., & Jeong, H. (2011). Mechanisms of effectiveness of child abuse public service announcements: Roles of emotional response and perceived effectiveness. Health Communication, 26(6), 534-545. Preventing Child Abuse North Dakota. (2014, January 28). Preventing Child Abuse North Dakota. Levels of prevention. Russo, Gina. (2008, January 29). Child abuse and neglect costs the nation more than $100 billion annually. Pewtrusts.org.