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Presented at the 19th Annual Research Conference

Children in Child Welfare Systems: Reentry, Perpetration, and Mental Illness

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Session Number: 5 Room: Salon H

Presentation Type: symposium

Chair: Brigitte A. Manteuffel Discussant:

Synopsis: Designing and implementing appropriate community level intervention for children and families experiencing child maltreatment and involved with the child welfare system requires knowledge of conditions that impact outcomes and maltreatment events. Three distinct but related studies are presented that examine reentry into Child Protective Services, male perpetration, and mental illness for this population. All three studies present data concerning characteristics of children and families, co-morbidity, and the interaction of outcomes and services. Implications of the research for treatment, community engagement, and policy are introduced for discussion.

Date: Thursday, February 23, 2006

Session Time: 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM

Presentation Time: 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM

Re-reporting and Recurrence of Child Maltreatment: Findings from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System

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Presenting: John Fluke

All Authors for this paper: John Fluke; Gila Shusterman; Dana Hollinshead; Ying-Ying Yuan

Presentation Type: element of symposium

Synopsis: Children who are subjects of a report of maltreatment to the State or local child protective services (CPS) are sometime referred more than once. This presentation focuses on re-reporting and recurrence (subsequent victimization), and on gaining a better understanding of the circumstances of repeated involvement with CPS. This study follows children for up to five years, using a multiyear, multistate case-level National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) data set spanning 1998 to 2002. Findings from this study highlight needed areas of improvement in the system of intervention, and underscore the perplexing issues surrounding the use of re-reporting and recurrence as performance measures for CPS.

Male Perpetrators of Child Maltreatment

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Presenting: Gila Shusterman

All Authors for this paper: Gila Shusterman; John Fluke; Ying-Ying Yuan

Presentation Type: element of symposium

Synopsis: This study utilized a multistate data set of 180,502 perpetrators identified by child protective services (CPS) during 2002. The perpetrators’ gender, relationship to the child victims, and association with the child’s mother were considered along with victims’ age, sex, and maltreatment circumstances. Descriptive and multivariate analyses techniques were used. Findings from this research support the targeting of child maltreatment prevention and intervention to men as well as women. In addition, a greater understanding of the relative risks to children of sexual abuse by different categories of men, may promote targeting of psychoeducational services to the most appropriate individuals.

Characteristics of Children Referred from Child Welfare in Systems of Care

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Presenting: Ebony Montgomery

All Authors for this paper: Ebony Montgomery; Anna Krivelyova; Bhuvana Sukumar

Presentation Type: element of symposium

Synopsis: Of the children who enter the system of care program, 8.6% are referred from child welfare agencies. The study compares these children to children who were referred from other sources in terms of their intake characteristics, service use, and clinical outcomes. The results indicate that children referred from child welfare are more likely to have a history of abuse and other risk factors; receive services tailored to their specific needs; and show rates of improvement similar to those of the comparison group.