Key Project Staff

Richard Barth, M.S.W., Ph.D., has provided leadership to the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) since its inception and has been a leading scholar on the connection between Child Welfare Services and substance abuse treatment. He is an author or co-author of four papers from this project (one in press, and three under review) looking at baseline data and 18-month follow-up data from NSCAW. He can be reached at rbarth@unc.edu.

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Shenyang Guo, M.A., Ph.D., is an expert in statistical analysis and health and human services. His numerous publications include methodological work on the analysis of longitudinal data, multivariate failure time data, program evaluation, and multi-level modeling. He has conducted many PSM training seminars, is co-author on three of the aforementioned papers, and is authoring a book on propensity score matching. He can be reached at sguo@email.unc.edu.

Claire Gibbons, M.P.H, Ph.D., is a scholar in the areas of health services and child welfare research. She has been the coordinator for this project. She has also written extensively about substance abuse and the safety and health of abused and neglected children. She can be reached at cgibbons@email.unc.edu.