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

To address the far-reaching consequences of adult substance use disorders on families and children, Congress in 2006 authorized, and in 2011 reauthorized, competitive grants to support...

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

The Flint MDT Study is one of the projects of the the National Quality Improvement Center on the Representation of Children in Child Welfare (QIC-ChildRep). The Study partnered with a group of...

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

The Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Service established the National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship Support...

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

During the first year of the RPG Program, HHS, with Office of Management and Budget approval, developed a web-based RPG Data Collection and Reporting System to compile the performance measure data...

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

In 2008, the Children’s Bureau (CB) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funded 17 cooperative agreements (subcontractors)...

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

Two complementary research components--structured interviews with and ethnographic studies of parents--will address the two primary issues of this study. The factors being examined are (1) the...

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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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• 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

This longitudinal study of 1,206 families assembled during a 4-year NCCAN-funded research project focuses on recurrences of child maltreatment among families known to public Child Protective...

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

This study examines the incidence of substantiated maltreatment among children with cognitive, physical, emotional or learning disabilities, with specific attention given to the relationship...

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

The target population for the NSCAW includes all children and families that enter the child welfare system. Two samples were drawn from the population in 92 participating county child welfare...

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• 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

To address the far-reaching consequences of adult substance use disorders on families and children, Congress authorized competitive grants to support partnerships among child welfare, substance...

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

The ROCKWOOL–Duke Global Child Welfare Database (RDGCWD) compiles cross-national aggregate information from the Global North about children who experienced contact with child welfare systems (CWS)...

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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

The second National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW II) is a longitudinal study intended to answer a range of fundamental questions about the well-being, functioning, service...

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

The purpose of the Understanding Post Adoption and Guardianship Instability for Children and Youth Who Exit Foster Care project is to examine rates of instability, factors associated with...

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

The Developmental Victimization Survey (DVS), was designed to obtain one-year incidence estimates of a comprehensive range of childhood victimizations across gender, race, and developmental stage....

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

A representative national sample of 6,002 families were studied with an emphasis on psychological and medical consequences, costs, and help-seeking patterns of intra-family violence. The study is...

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

Results indicate that approximately one in five youth (19%) received a sexual solicitation or approach over the Internet in the last year while one in thirty-three (3%) received an aggressive...

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