• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-05

This study identifies factors that significantly increase or decrease the likelihood that a child maltreatment report will be substantiated once an investigation occurs. A specific concern of the...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-05

The amendments to the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) of 1988 created a Federal Inter-Agency Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect. The Task Force consisted of approximately 30...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-05

The State Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) Policies Database, supported by the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-05

The purpose of the second national incidence study was to assess the current national incidence of child abuse and neglect, and to determine how the severity, frequency, and character of child...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-05

Conducted by NCCAN and mandated by Congress, this study was the first large scale effort to assemble information, based on standardized definitions, about the scope and character of recognized...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-05

Other data sources that can be linked with the SCAN Policies Database include data from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS), the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

Tanzer discusses PCA’s latest work with the FrameWorks Institute and recent research around communications, framing, and messaging. His talk demonstrates how this research can be integrated into...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-05

LONGSCAN is a consortium of research studies operating under common by-laws and procedures. It was initiated in 1991 with grants from the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect to a...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-05

This report to Congress highlights major activities and accomplishments of the Children's Bureau and its Office on Child Abuse and Neglect has undertaken in the coordination of programs and...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

This report describes efforts to coordinate the objectives and activities of agencies and organizations responsible for programs related to child abuse and neglect. Metadata-only record linking...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-05

This report describes efforts to coordinate the objectives and activities of agencies and organizations responsible for programs related to child abuse and neglect. Metadata-only record linking...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2006-01-12T00:00:00

These data examine the relationships between childhood abuse and/or neglect and later criminal and violent criminal behavior. In particular, the data focus on whether being a victim of...

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• Organization: City of Austin
• Updated: 2025-01-29

ABOUT THIS CHART This dashboard contains information about abuse or neglect investigations that were closed by Residential Child Care Investigations staff during the specified timeframe. If at...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-05

This 2013 report provides an overview of the information collected from professionals involved with responding to and investigating child abuse and neglect who are affected by immunity issues and...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2021-07-08

A list of the datasets that comprise National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) Findings.

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2006-03-30T00:00:00

The purpose of this study was to provide a comprehensive, case-level examination of the full spectrum of case processing of serious child abuse and neglect cases as they flowed through the ...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-05

This report to Congress provides a description of key efforts of the Children's Bureau and its Office on Child Abuse and Neglect in the coordination of programs and activities related to child...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-05

This report describes efforts to coordinate the objectives and activities of agencies and organizations responsible for programs related to child abuse and neglect. Metadata-only record linking...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2024-06-28

The National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) Child File data set consists of child-specific data of all reports of maltreatment to State child protective service agencies that...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-05

The SCAN Policies Database includes state definitions and policies from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The SCAN Policies Database 2021 represents...

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