Child Maltreatment in California (2022)

1,226,857

Estimated Survivors, based on national estimates of child abuse prevalence.

451,101

Reported Survivors, or 0.9 every minute.

51,747

Substantiated Survivors, or 141 children each day.

108

Fatalities from child maltreatment.

$24.4 billion - Total economic burden incurred by California communities for the lifetime costs of survivors of child maltreatment in 2022.

2.03 million - Number of children that could be sent to preschool for that same amount.

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