RE: closing abuse investigations

[Aron Shlonsky <shlonsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Caroline,

Just to piggy-back on Isabel's message, the last article she is referring 
to will appear in part 2 of a 2 part series on risk assessment in child 
welfare.  Part 1 will come out later this month and part 2 will come out in 
Jan. or Feb.  The issue will also include another article that may be of 
interest by Diane DePanfilis and Susan Zuravin entitled "Assessing Risk to 
Determine the Need for Services."

You may also want to check out some of the work done by Diana English and 
Brett Drake.

Best of luck,

Aron Shlonsky

At 01:20 PM 12/15/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Caroline
>
>I received a couple of  graants from the National Center on Child Abuse and
>Neglect to look at  cases closed after investigation. The final reports are
>probably available from the Clearing House. They are as follows: 1) "A
>Longitudinal Study Of Protective Service Cases Closed After Investigation:
>An Approach to Validating Risk Assessment ," Dec 30, 1992, Grant #
>90-CA-1365
>       2)"Parental Substance Abuse as Risk Factor in Child Abuse/Neglect:  A
>Controlled Longitudinal Study," March 1994, Grant # 90-CA-1453.
>         An article based on the second grant is: Wolock, I. and Magura,S. 
> Parental
>Substance Abuse as a Predictor of Child Maltreatment Re-Reports  in Child
>Abuse & Neglect, Vol 20, No 12, pp 1183-1193, 1996.
>         In addition, an article will soon be published in an upcoming 
> issue of
>Children and Youth Services Review.
>This article entitled "Child Abuse and Neglect Referral Patterns: A
>Longitudinal Study" traces the reports of the families who were in our study
>(whose cases were closed) from their first report through June 1996.
>
>Hope this is helpful.
>Isabel Wolock
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu
> > [mailto:owner-CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu]On Behalf Of
> > Caroline Felstiner
> > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 12:31 PM
> > To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
> > Subject: closing abuse investigations
> >
> >
> > Greetings,
> > I am a masrers student writing a proposal to exmine maltreatment
> > cases that are
> > investigated and closed, without the child/family receiving
> > further services.
> > This apprears to be the bulk of investigations. There is little
> > literature on
> > this topic and I would appreciate help in locating any references
> > the list is
> > aware of. Thak you for the help. I appreciate it.
> >
> > Caroline Felstiner B.S.W.
> > Faculty of Social Work
> > University of Toronto
> >
> >

Aron Shlonsky
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