Session: Findings from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW): Applying Innovative Methods to Understanding Services and Outcomes for Maltreated Children


Sunday, 16 January 2005: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Jasmine (Hyatt Regency Miami)
Findings from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW): Applying Innovative Methods to Understanding Services and Outcomes for Maltreated Children

Organizer:	Richard P. Barth, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
		Achieving Permanency for Children in Child Welfare Judith Wildfire, MA, MPH, Richard P. Barth, PhD, Rebecca L Green, MSW
		The State of the NSCAW Sample Richard P. Barth, PhD
		Family-based Child Welfare Services and the Mental Health of Young Children: Using a Propensity Scores Matching Approach to Inform Mental Health Service Planning Julie McCrae, E. Christopher Lloyd, MSW, Shenyang Guo, PhD
		Safety of Children in Child Welfare Services: Analysis of Reported and Undetected Maltreatment over 18-Months Patricia Kohl, MSW, Claire B. Gibbons, MPH, Rebecca L Green, MSW
		Assessing the Impact of Kinship Foster Care vis-à-vis Foster Care on Children’s Well-being Shenyang Guo, PhD, Richard P. Barth, PhD
Format:	Symposium
Abstract Text: This symposium will consist of five presentations, the last four of which focus on the use of new analytic methods to answer questions about child outcomes for children receiving child welfare services. The The National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW), authorized by Congress, is the first study of a national probability sample of children assessed following child abuse and neglect reports and investigation by child welfare services (CWS). The sample was drawn from 96 PSUs in 40 states; data were collected from children, caregivers, and child welfare workers. Two samples of children are included: 5504 children enrolled immediately upon receipt of a child maltreatment report (“core” sample), and 733 children enrolled after at least one year in foster care (“foster care” sample). Each group received standardized mental health and developmental measures for children, foster parents, and biological parents. Services provided to children and caregivers are also included. Data from the core sample are used. first paper identifies the status of the sample and indicates ways that attrition bias has been assessed and the conclusions from that assessment. The second paper examines the in-home service cases to determine the well-being of children who began CWS receipt at home and to use propensity score matching to create the most precise possible comparison of outcomes for those who did and did not receive a significant amount of in-home services. The third paper addresses children’s safety, with particular interest in the relationship between domestic violence and repeated child maltreatment re-reports. This paper includes standard multivariate analyses and mixture modeling to identify groups of children with repeated maltreatment Paper four uses competing risks event history analyses with weighted and stratified data to assess the probability of reunification, termination of adoption or guardianship, or remaining in long-term foster care. The final analysis will also look at child wellbeing, and compare findings from three different approaches to propensity score matching analysis. The analyses are all conducted on the NSCAW restricted release data set available through the Cornell National Data Archive for Child Abuse and Neglect.

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