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Alternative Responses to Child Maltreatment: Findings from NCANDS: Research Brief
This Research Brief presents findings from an analysis of child abuse and neglect reports for six states that use both traditional child maltreatment investigations and some other defined action that does not require a specific finding about whether the maltreatment occurred.
Federal Foster Care Financing: How and Why the Current Funding Structure Fails to Meet the Needs of the Child Welfare Field
U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation This Issue Brief provides an overview of the title IV-E federal foster care program's funding structure and documents several key weaknesses.
Rereporting and Recurrence of Child Maltreatment: Findings from NCANDS
This report presents findings from a longitudinal analysis of child abuse reporting data spanning five years, derived from nine states' submissions to the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System, known as NCANDS. The study focuses on the phenomena of "rereporting" which occurs when individual children have been the subject of more than one maltreatment investigation, and "recurrence" which…
Rereporting and Recurrence of Child Maltreatment: Findings from NCANDS
Most children who are subjects of a report of maltreatment to the State or local child protective services (CPS) agency are involved just once with CPS during their lives. Other children are referred more than once and their referrals result in repeated investigations or assessments (rereporting). Some of these children are found to have been revictimized (recurrence). This paper focuses on…
Rereporting and Recurrence of Child Maltreatment: Findings from NCANDS
By: John D. Fluke, Gila R. Shusterman, Dana Hollinshead, and Ying-Ying T. Yuan Walter R. McDonald & Associates Prepared for: Laura RadelOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
How Cash and Counseling Affects Informal Caregivers: Findings from Arkansas, Florida and New Jersey
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services How Cash and Counseling Affects Informal Caregivers: Findings from Arkansas, Florida, and New Jersey Leslie Foster, Randall Brown, Barbara Phillips and Barbara Lepidus Carlson Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. July 2005 PDF Version
Assessing the Appeal of the Cash and Counseling Demonstration in Arkansas, Florida and New Jersey
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Assessing the Appeal of the Cash and Counseling Demonstration in Arkansas, New Jersey and Florida Stacy Dale, Randall Brown, and Rachel Shapiro Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. July 2005 PDF Version (56 PDF pages)
Barriers to Implementing Technology in Residential Long-Term Care Settings
Technology plays a vital role in the lives of older individuals. This report: (1) describes a range of existing and emerging technological solutions for select care issues salient to residential care settings; (2) identifies, based on a review of the literature and discussions with experts in the field, barriers to the successful implementation of technology in residential care settings; and (3)…
Assessing the Appeal of the Cash and Counseling Demonstration in Arkansas, Florida and New Jersey
Stacy Dale, Randall Brown, and Rachel Shapiro Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. July 2005 This report was prepared under contract #HHS-100-95-0046 between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP) and the University of Maryland.
How Cash and Counseling Affects Informal Caregivers: Findings from Arkansas, Florida and New Jersey
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services How Cash and Counseling Affects Informal Caregivers: Findings from Arkansas, Florida, and New Jersey Executive Summary
Barriers to Implementing Technology in Residential Long-Term Care Settings
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Alternative Responses to Child Maltreatment: Findings from NCANDS
Alternative response systems are a new and quickly growing innovation in the child maltreatment field. More defined by what they are not (investigations) than by what they are, States have implemented a range of alternative response models. In general, these models are intended to focus on family strengths and needs and take a more service oriented approach than do investigations, which more…
How Cash and Counseling Affects Informal Caregivers: Findings from Arkansas, Florida and New Jersey
This report describes the effects of Cash and Counseling on the caregivers who were providing the most unpaid assistance to adult beneficiaries when those beneficiaries volunteered to participate in the demonstration and completed a baseline telephone interveiw. The caregivers in this analysis identified by beneficiaries as their primary informal caregiver at baseline were…
Consumer and Consultant Experiences in the New Jersey Personal Preference Program
The report describes the implementation of Personal Preference by synthesizing information from in-person discussions with program staff, a mail survey of program consultants, telephone interviews with consumers in the treatment group, and program records. It discusses the program's goals and features, the ways consumers managed their program responsibilities and took advantage of increased…
Assessing the Appeal of the Cash and Counseling Demonstration in Arkansas, Florida and New Jersey
This report assesses the appeal of the Cash and Counseling demonstration by: (1) estimating the proportions of eligible beneficiaries that participated and comparing the characteristics of participants and nonparticipants; (2) describing beneficiaries' most common reasons for agreeing or declining to participate; and (3) examining whether the demonstration affected the number of beneficiaries…
Alternative Responses to Child Maltreatment: Findings from NCANDS
Child protective services (CPS) agencies face a large volume of reports, increasingly complex cases, and strained resources. Because of their belief that many CPS reports do not require a traditional investigative response, some States have developed practices and policies to differentiate how cases are handled. Generally, investigations are aimed at determining whether the child maltreatment…
Consumer and Consultant Experiences in the New Jersey Personal Preference Program
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Consumer and Consultant Experiences in the New Jersey Personal Preference Program Executive Summary
Barriers to Implementing Technology in Residential Long-Term Care Settings
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Barriers to Implementing Technology in Residential Long-Term Care Settings Vicki A. Freedman, Ph.D., Maggie Calkins, Ph.D., Robert DeRosiers, MS, OTR/L, ATP, and Kimberly Van Haitsma, Ph.D. Polisher Research Institute December 10, 2005 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2005/techbarr.pdf (68 PDF pages)