What is Child Maltreatment? Well HPF took a deeper dive and explored what it actually is and had our amazing volunteer not just research, not just write the piece BUT she also recorded a reading of it and here it is. Why are we including this as part of our line up for Orange Meets Purple? It is simple – Child Maltreatment is abuse! It is the abuse of a child! We know that child abuse is trauma and trauma can lead to addition. It is how Orange WILL meet Purple and the HPF way is to talk about it. So listen and know that if this was in your background or you see it happening somewhere help is out there!