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Other Child Abuse and Neglect Resources
- The
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
(ICPSR)
ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of
social science data for research and instruction, and offers
training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use.
To ensure that data resources are available to future generations of
scholars, ICPSR preserves data, migrating them to new storage media
as changes in technology warrant. In addition, ICPSR provides user
support to assist researchers in identifying relevant data for
analysis and in conducting their research projects. ICPSR is a
membership-based organization, with over 400 member colleges and
universities around the world.
- The
Children's Bureau
The Children’s Bureau (CB) is the oldest federal agency for
children and is located within the United States Department of
Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families,
Administration on Children, Youth and Families. It is responsible
for assisting States in the delivery of child welfare services -
services designed to protect children and strengthen families. The
agency provides grants to States, Tribes and communities to operate
a range of child welfare services including child protective
services (child abuse and neglect) family preservation and support,
foster care, adoption and independent living. In addition, the
agency makes major investments in staff training, technology and
innovative programs.
- National Data Analysis System
(NDAS)
The Child Welfare League of America, in cooperation with the state
child welfare agencies, has collected the nation's first
comprehensive, interactive child welfare database: the National Data
Analysis System (NDAS). The NDAS harnesses technology to promote
effective integration of research, policy, and practice. The NDAS
puts child welfare statistics at the fingertips of Internet users,
creating customized tables and graphs and providing information and
links necessary to understand the data.
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Child
Welfare Policy Database
Child Welfare
Information Gateway is pleased to announce that select content from
our State Statutes Series will now be available on the State Child
Welfare Policy Database. The Database is managed by Child Trends
with support from Casey Family Programs.
The State Child Welfare Policy Database provides policy information on a
range of child welfare topics, allowing visitors to access
up-to-date information on individual State policies as well as
compare their own State's policies to other States.
Visit the State Child Welfare Policy Database at
www.childwelfarepolicy.org and Information Gateway's State
Statutes Search at
www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/state.
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State Guides and Manuals
State Guides and Manuals is a new searchable database compiled by
Child Welfare Information Gateway. The database links to
publications created by State agencies that describe their services
and provide guidance on child welfare-related topics to both
professional and general audiences. The publications are organized
by topic and cover a wide range of issues across the child welfare
continuum. Features of the search include categories that identify
the primary intended audience for each publication and multiple ways
for users to access, filter, and sort information from the original
documents.
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Cornell
Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER)
The Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER) was
founded in 1981 to provide research support services tailored to the
needs of social scientists at
Cornell
University. It is committed to enhancing the environment
for social and economic research, and it encourages inquiry that
cuts across traditional academic departments.
- Other Child
Abuse and Neglect Resources (at CAPN)
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Alternative/Differential Response Bibliography
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This database is a collection of citations (some with links
to text) related to Alternative response. Alternative or
Differential Response refers to a system of nontraditional response
to child maltreatment reports. The terms have been used to describe
systems providing an option of voluntary family involvement with
child welfare services following a maltreatment report. The database
is created and maintained by NDACAN.
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Secondary Analysis, Data Sharing and Documentation Collection*
This RefShare database is a collection of citations (some
with links to text) related to secondary analysis, data sharing and
data documentation in social science research. The database is
created and maintained by NDACAN.
* affiliated with
NDACAN
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