This training will explore mandated child abuse reporting requirements while also equipping professionals with strategies to engage parents in ways that may help prevent abuse—beyond the threat of being reported. Recognizing that the professional is first a human being, professionals can have aversions and negative feelings about working with parents that believe in inappropriate, too strict, or even worse–abusive behavior with their children. However, dismissing these parents or refusing to work with them ignores the reality that most children will stay with their parents–no matter how problematic their behavior. This training goes beyond mandated child abuse reporting requirements to address principles and strategies to professionally and effectively engage with parents to potentially reduce child abuse. The relationships among meaning and messages from Adverse Childhood Experiences, Benevolent Childhood Experiences, abuse, and secure and insecure attachment will be discussed.