RE: Recidivism in Child Protective Service Families

[Greg Tooman <GTooman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You might want to take a look at two articles:

Fluke, Yuan, and Edwards, Recurrence of maltreatment: An application of the
National child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS).  Child Abuse and
Neglect, vol 23, no 7, 1999.

DePanfilis and Zuravian, Epidemiology of Child Maltreatment Recurrences.
Social Services Review, June, 1999.

Gregory Tooman
Research Associate
Children's Services
American Humane Association
63 Inverness Dr. East
Englewood CO 80112-5117
(303) 792-9900 fax: (303) 792-5333
greg@americanhumane.org
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-----Original Message-----
From: Walter Fahr [mailto:Fswalter@ocs.dss.state.la.us]
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 1:15 PM
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
Subject: Recidivism in Child Protective Service Families


We in Louisiana are taking a closer look at the characteristics of families
that recidivate, those that have a substantiated finding and then come back
again to the attention of the system with another confirmed incident of
child maltreatment. Since this is an area of interest to all states because
of the Federal outcomes measures, I would like to know of any citations of
research or state administrative reports on this subject.   

Walter Fahr
Program Manager-CPS
State of Louisiana
         (225)342-6832
FAX (225)342-9087
fswalter@ocs.dss.state.la.us