Develop Innovative Methods in Secondary Analyses of Child Welfare Databases

 

Children's Bureau Discretionary Grants Program

 

 

Principal Investigator: Shenyang Guo

Project Fellows: Eleanor Locklin Brown, Patricia Kohl, Julie McCrae

Final Reports

Guo [doc] | [pdf]

 

The executive summary of the final report

Brown [pdf]

Kohl [doc] | [pdf]

McCrae [doc] | [pdf]

 

 

Other Documents

Brown

  • Analytic approaches: The role of individual and community characteristics in child welfare decisions [pdf]

 Guo

  • Four innovative applications of hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) [ppt] | [pdf]
  • Quasi-experimental strategies when randomization is not feasible: Propensity score matching
  • [ppt] | [pdf]

Kohl

  • Child welfare as a gateway to domestic violence services [doc] | [pdf]
  • Domestic violence and pathways into child welfare services: Findings from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being [doc] | [pdf]
  • Profiles of victimized women among the child welfare population: Implications for targeted child welfare policy and practices [doc] | [pdf]

McCrae

  • Maltreatment types and risk related to post-investigative child welfare services
  • [doc] | [pdf]
  • Profile of children investigated for sexual abuse: Association with psychopathology symptoms and services [doc] | [pdf]
  • Psychological symptoms among young maltreated children: Do services make a difference? [ppt] | [pdf]