To provide objective analyses about the effects of prevention and treatment programs on
child welfare outcomes, RAND researchers built a quantitative model that simulated how …

To analyze the effects of prevention and treatment programs on child welfare outcomes,
RAND researchers built a quantitative model simulating how children enter and flow through …

Policies can be powerful tools for prevention given their potential to affect conditions that can
improve population-level health. Given the dearth of empirical research on policies' impacts …

Preventing the recurrence of child maltreatment has always been a key concern of child
welfare agencies, however, our understanding of why the incidence of documented …

Although the emphasis on evidence-based interventions is a major step toward improving
child protection systems, there are other equally important decisions to be made if we expect …

One third of American children's homes are investigated by child welfare agencies for
maltreatment, yet child welfare's causal impacts on parents are unknown. Using a novel …

Regardless of where the systemic child welfare reforms now being pursued by many states
and communities begin, they must ultimately encompass all systems that serve vulnerable …

The majority of alleged abuse or neglect reports to the US child welfare system are either
screened out prior to an investigation (ie, at the “hotline” stage) or investigated only to be …

This article reviews and analyzes extant literature on the prevention of child maltreatment.
We give an overview of protective factors that research finds to be efficacious in …

This secondary qualitative study explored local perceptions of the causes of child
maltreatment and prevention needs in 12 counties in a midwestern state through focus …