Child Abuse and Neglect

REPORT

National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches: Assessing Program Outcomes — Jan 4, 2012

Safe Start Promising Approaches (SSPA) is the second phase of a community-based initiative focused on developing and fielding interventions to prevent and reduce the impact of children's exposure to violence. This report shares the results of SSPA, which was intended to implement and evaluate promising and evidence-based programs in 15 program sites across the country.

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RESEARCH BRIEF

Reducing the Impact of Children's Exposure to Violence: Results of the National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches — Sep 13, 2011

RAND's evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches identified program successes and challenges in implementing programs for children exposed to violence. The evaluation results, though largely inconclusive, can inform similar efforts going forward.

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COMMENTARY

Dropping Out, Imprisoned or Killed: Disparities in Outcomes Faced by Young African American Men — Aug 26, 2011

Boys and men of color—in particular, young African American men—are particularly vulnerable to racial and ethnic disparities. That such disparities exist should surprise no one. Nor should the fact that such disparities diminish the life chances of those affected, writes Lois M. Davis.

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Toolkit for Adapting Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) or Supporting Students Exposed to Trauma (SSET) for Implementation with Youth in Foster Care — Jan 4, 2010

CBITS was developed for use by school-based mental health professionals for any student with symptoms of distress following exposure to trauma. SSET was adapted from CBITS for use by any school personnel with the time and interest to work with students affected by trauma. This toolkit assists social workers, school-based mental health professionals, and school personnel in adapting these interventions for use with youth who are in foster…

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Report Quantifies Level of Disadvantage Faced by Boys and Men of Color in California — Feb 4, 2009

The first multi-dimensional effort to quantify the disparities faced by African-American and Latino boys and men in California across a broad spectrum of health and social factors provides a disquieting outlook for their lives.

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Reparable Harm: Assessing and Addressing Disparities Faced by Boys and Men of Color in California, Executive Summary — Jan 4, 2009

The summary discusses some of the greatest disparities for boys and men of color relative to their white counterparts across specific socioeconomic, health, safety, and school readiness indicators in California and provides information about different strategies for reducing the disparities — including effective programs, practices, and policies — that can begin making an important difference in changing the life course of boys…

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

The Relationship Between Protective Factors and Outcomes for Children Investigated for Maltreatment — Dec 31, 2008

Well developed social and problem solving skills, greater ability to adapt, and positive peer relationships help to protect some children from the harmful consequences of being mistreated.

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Aiding Children in Long-Term Recovery from Traumatic Events — Apr 17, 2007

RAND has released a toolkit that shows how to provide school-based mental health programs for students exposed to violence, natural disasters and other traumatic events. The toolkit will enable schools to help students displaced by natural disasters like Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

Psychotropic Medication Use in a National Probability Sample of Children in the Child Welfare System — Dec 31, 2004

These national estimates suggest that children in child welfare settings are receiving psychotropic medications at a rate between 2 and 3 times that of children treated in the community. This suggests a need to further understand the prescribing of psychotropic medications for child welfare children.

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

An Action Model of Socially Disruptive Behaviors Committed By Persons with Severe Mental Illness: The Role of Self-Reported Childhood Abuse and Suspiciousness--Hostility — Dec 31, 2002

The authors' results encourage further exploration of the role of childhood maltreatment in the adaptation of people with severe mental illness.

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

Preventing and Reporting Abuse — Dec 31, 2001

The incidence and prevalence of child maltreatment are continuing concerns.

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

Violence Exposure Among School-Age Children in Foster Care: Relationship to Distress Symptoms — Dec 31, 2000

To describe the amount and nature of violence exposure and examine the relationship between violence exposure and distress symptoms among children in foster care.

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RESEARCH BRIEF

Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren: What Do We Know? — Dec 31, 1999

Anne Pebley and Laura Rudkin explore research results on the characteristics of grandchildren and grandparents in common households and identify a research agenda for this phenomenon.

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren: What Do We Know? — Dec 31, 1998

Approximately 5% to 6% of grandchildren and 10% of grandparents live in grandparent-grandchild households at any point in time.

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

Recidivism in Child Protective Services — Dec 31, 1996

Uses data from a survey conducted by the California Department of Social Services to examine the extent of recidivism in child protective case openings in California and the factors associated with it.

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Education in Context: Recent Trends in Child Welfare — Dec 31, 1993

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The Impact of Case Characteristics on Child Abuse Reporting Decisions — Dec 31, 1991

This paper examines the impact of selected child abuse reporting characteristics while controlling for others.

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Flexible Reporting Options for Skilled Child Abuse Professionals — Sep 30, 1991

Proposed is a system of flexible options for the mandated reporting of child abuse and neglect, to improve compliance with and reduce burdens on the child protective system. Potential benefits and drawbacks of the plan, which would identify and train registered reporters and offer the option of explicit deferred investigation, are discussed.

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REPORT

Reducing Underresponding: Improving System Response to Mandated Reporters — Dec 31, 1990

The child protective services (CPS) system in the United States is severely overburdened, and therefore CPS agencies cannot respond as they might like to many reports. This Note proposes three changes that could improve system functioning ...

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The Role of Professional Background, Case Characteristics, and Protective Agency Response in Mandated Child Abuse Reporting — Dec 31, 1989

Presents data about reporting behavior drawn from a mail survey of mandated reporters and data on child protective agency responses collected in selected child protective agencies.

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