The NCIOM Task Force on Essentials for Childhood developed an integrated, comprehensive 5-year strategic plan to coordinate and prioritize the services, programs and/or policies of a number of state agencies that work to improve the lives of children and families. Specifically, the Task Force builds state and community capacity to expand primary prevention of child maltreatment efforts by incorporating the four goals of the CDC's Essentials for Childhood and applying a collective impact framework. Chapter 3 provides a review of 2 key protective factor frameworks by which the Task Force examined child maltreatment prevention: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Essentials for Childhood framework and the Center for the Study of Social Policy's Strengthening Families framework.