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The NDACAN Updata is your source for important Archive announcements and is distributed twice a year.
RECENT DATA RELEASES
2009 LONGSCAN SPECIAL RESEARCH MEETING
This year?s Special Research Meeting was a smashing success! The Meeting featured data from the Longitudinal Studies on Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN). After reviewing 40 applications, Archive staff invited fifteen applicants to participate in this special event. The Meeting began with a networking reception for participants, Archive staff, and LONGSCAN investigators. Day two was filled with presentations by LONGSCAN investigators, Desmond Runyan, Al Litrownik, and Terri Lewis and concluded with a panel discussion featuring members of the LONGSCAN consortium. The presentations were video recorded and are available via the LONGSCAN support page of our website. Computing time (days 3-5), started off with one-on-one consultations with LONGSCAN consultants, Terri Lewis, Jamie Smith, and Miguel Villodas.
In addition to working hard, everyone had an opportunity to enjoy the after-hours events, which included a group dinner at Madeline?s on the Ithaca Commons, a walk down the gorge, a visit to Taughannock Falls, and an excursion to The Stonecat Cafe, which overlooks Seneca Lake. On average, participants rated their time at the meeting as very productive and would recommend it to a colleague.
Special thanks to the presenters & consultants from the LONGSCAN team, as well as to Lynn Martin who worked with us to pull this together and make it a huge success!
The application for the 2010 Summer Research Institute will be available via our website (http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu) in Fall of 2009.
CALL FOR DATA USERS TO SEND CITATIONS
The Archive is working hard to maintain a bibliography of all the scholarly work that has been produced based on Archive data. Visitors to our web site can access the bibliography through our Child Abuse and Neglect Digital Library (canDL). Please visit the canDL to see if your publications with Archive data are already listed (http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/NDACAN/Bibliography). Let us know if we have missed any of yours!
ARCHIVE TRAVELS
NDACAN exhibited at the 17th National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect in Atlanta, GA, March 30th-April 4th, 2009. Archive staff responded to questions about our datasets and discussed current developments in the field.
Archive staff presented a poster titled, "National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect: A Resource for Early-Career Scholars" at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) in Denver, CO. on April 4th, 2009.
On May 28, 2009 Elliott Smith presented a workshop at the National Child Welfare Evaluation Summit in Washington, DC. The session, "Using Federal Data Sources for Evaluation," provided strategies for using national child welfare datasets for local evaluation and highlighted a variety of relevant data sources from the Archive.
FORTHCOMING DATASETS
- Mental Health Service Use Of Youth Leaving Foster Care (Voyages) by Curtis McMillen (Dataset #133)
- Juvenile Online Victimization Study(N-JOV) by David Finkelhor (Dataset #135)
- Predicting and Preventing Neglect in Teen Mothers by John Borkowski (Dataset #140)
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