The national Quality Improvement Center on early Childhood (QIC-eC) funded four research and demonstration projects that tested child maltreatment prevention approaches. The projects were guided by several key perspectives: the importance of increasing protective factors in addition to decreasing risk factors in child maltreatment prevention efforts, improving adults' capabilities to increase the likelihood of optimal child development, developing effective collaborative partnerships for the successful provision of integrated services, and addressing multiple domains of the social ecology to effect positive child and family outcomes. also, the QIC-eC's work highlighted the importance of focusing on well-being in maltreatment prevention efforts, exploring the relationship between culture and protective factors, and developing strengths-based parent assessment tools.