Need identification: The model development
process began with need identification from the
CNCP and other community members. There was
community concern that child abuse causes longterm
negative consequences, both for individual
children and society, as a whole. The CNCP and
other community members, therefore, decided to
instill prevention measures, rather than wait for
serious cases to occur in the community. They equated
protection measures to vaccines for communicable
diseases, and expressed the belief the proverb
‘spare the rod, spoil the child’ should be adjusted
and carefully applied for more appropriate child
rearing practices. The participants stated: