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Message ID: 11386
Date: 2024-06-29

Author:Andres Arroyo

Subject:NDACAN Updata Newsletter, Summer 2024 (Vol. 66)

THE NDACAN UPDATA Summer 2024 (Vol. 66) The NDACAN Updata is your source for important Archive announcements. NDACAN SUMMER TRAINING SERIES Summer Training Series (STS) 2024: Best Practices in the Use of NDACAN Data Join us for the 2024 NDACAN Summer Training Series! The theme of the 2024 series is best practices in the use of our data. Presentations will take place on Wednesdays from 12PM-1PM (Eastern Time) and focus on the unique strengths and limitations of NDACAN data, common issues in their use, and general approaches to support rigorous analyses. The Summer Training Series helps participants advance research projects using our data and increases the impact of such work. The presentations are free but advanced registration is required through the link provided below. * July 10: NCANDS Strengths and Limitations * Introduction: Cara Kelly * Presenter: Sarah Sernaker * July 17: Assessing Reporting Issues in NCANDS and AFCARS * Presenter: Alexander F. Roehrkasse * July 24: AFCARS Strengths and Limitations * Presenter: Sarah Sernaker * July 31: Survey Design and Using Weights * Presenter: Sarah Sernaker * August 7: Approaching NSCAW III for Experienced and New Users * Presenter: RTI * August 14: NYTD Strengths and Limitations * Presenters: Tammy White and Sarah Sernaker Summer Training Series Registration Link: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hMgJK9UATlOOB-KTdCiNLA NDACAN OFFICE HOURS LeaRn With NDACAN Special Office Hours Series 2024-2025 We are thrilled to announce that the 2024-2025 Office Hours series will feature live 30-minute courses on teaching data users to code in the R programming software, followed by 30-minutes of open support time and breakout groups. Each 30-minute R course will feature instruction and live coding, include a handout covering the core concepts and codes of the lesson, and be accompanied by an assignment for participants to complete between sessions to practice the skills taught in the course. The dataset used in the course and for the assignments will be made available through the website for the purposes of the course. The workshops will be recorded and turned into a webinar series on the NDACAN website. The workshops will build on each other, and videos will be made available within one week of the workshop so that participants who miss a session can watch before the next live session. The course will be free and requires advanced registration. We hope that you'll join us for this special Office Hours series and LeaRn to code R with NDACAN! Schedule (EST) LeaRN with NDACAN Course from 11AM - 11:30AM Open Support from 11:30AM - 12PM * September 20: Introduction to R * October 18: "Tidyverse" Functions * November 15: Basic Data Management * January 17: Linking Multiple Years * February 21: Descriptive Statistics * March 21: Data Visualization * April 18: Introduction to Regression * May 16: Introduction to Advanced Modeling Registration link for the LeaRn With NDACAN Special Office Hours Series: https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtce-rrjguE9Xx7Xk-ggIfD6Rxe-Jf7hwc CALL FOR DATA USERS TO SEND CITATIONS NDACAN maintains a reference list of scholarly work produced using Archive data. You can access the Child Abuse and Neglect Digital Library (canDL) directly or from our canDL Bibliography information page. Please visit the canDL to check if your publications that use Archive data are listed, and contact us if you have references to add (NDACANsupport@cornell.edu ). When submitting citations, please be sure to include the DOI link. Featured Publications: * Adoption and Foster Care Reporting System (AFCARS) Beard, L. M., Choi, K. W. (2024) Disrupted family reunification: Mental health, race, and state-level factors. Social Science & Medicine, Volume 348, 116768, ISSN 0277-9536, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116768 * Longitudinal Studies on Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN) ages 0-18 Felt, J.M., Chimed-Ochir, U., Shores, K.A., Olson, A.E., Li, Y., Fisher, Z.F., Ram, N. and Shenk, C.E. (2024) Contamination bias in the estimation of child maltreatment causal effects on adolescent internalizing and externalizing behavior problems. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13990. * Longitudinal Studies on Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN) ages 0-18 Olson, A. E., Felt, J. M., Dunning, E. D., Zhang, Z. Z., Lombera, M. A., Moeckel, C., Mustafa, M. U., Allen, B., Frasier, L., Shenk, C. E. (2024) Child Behavior Problems and Maltreatment Exposure. Pediatrics, Volume 153, Issue 6, e2023064625, https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2023-064625 Follow us on Twitter for notifications about publications created from NDACAN data. Researchers who publish articles based upon NDACAN data are encouraged to tag us @NDACAN_CU and include a clickable DOI link to the article with the hashtag of the dataset abbreviation and/or number which was used for the study (e.g. #NCANDS, #NYTD, #DS223, etc.). FORTHCOMING DATASETS * Dataset #283 Florida Study of Professionals for Safe Families (FSPSF), Waves 1-8 * Dataset #219 LONGSCAN Young Adult/NIDA Data * Dataset #TBD Integrated Foster Care Time Series * Dataset #TBD Children's Bureau Statistical Series (CBSS) * Dataset #TBD National Center for Social Statistics (NCSS) RECENTLY RELEASED DATASETS * Dataset #284 National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) - Services File, FY2011-2023 STAY CONNECTED TO #NDACAN For the latest updates on NDACAN activities, make sure to follow us on X (Twitter) @NDACAN_CU . NDACAN curates its X (Twitter) content to highlight the availability and research potential of NDACAN data holdings, trainings, and user support services for child welfare researchers. You are encouraged to follow our feed and tweet your publications or presentations at @NDACAN_CU to share the various ways that NDACAN is advancing the field of child welfare research. CALL FOR DATASETS Research has demonstrated an increased citation rate for publications whose investigators share data. Depositing your data with NDACAN can facilitate long-term preservation and provide researchers access to your data for secondary analysis. The Archive is seeking quantitative datasets to add to our collection. Please contact us (NDACANsupport@cornell.edu ) if you have data or know of data that would benefit researchers, or check out the Contribute Data page of our website. Are you a member of our Child Maltreatment Research List Serve (CMRL)? The Archive moderates an e-mail list for discussions of research issues relevant to child abuse and neglect. To subscribe or to alter your subscription, visit our CMRL page. NDACAN Updata Newsletter Subscription Preferences NDACAN sends The NDACAN Updata e-newsletter to the CMRL membership, to our general mailings list, and to all active users of Archive datasets. If you would like to stop receiving general mailings, but still want updates about datasets that you're using, please email us using this link . If you would like to stop receiving general mailings and no longer use any datasets, please email us using this link . NDACAN is a joint project of Duke University , Cornell University , University of California, San Francisco. and Mathematica . The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect is a service of the Children's Bureau | Administration for Children and Families | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

THE NDACAN UPDATA Summer 2024 (Vol. 66) The NDACAN Updata is your source for important Archive announcements. NDACAN SUMMER TRAINING SERIES Summer Training Series (STS) 2024: Best Practices in the Use of NDACAN Data Join us for the 2024 NDACAN Summer Training Series! The theme of the 2024 series is best practices in the use of our data. Presentations will take place on Wednesdays from 12PM-1PM (Eastern Time) and focus on the unique strengths and limitations of NDACAN data, common issues in their use, and general approaches to support rigorous analyses. The Summer Training Series helps participants advance research projects using our data and increases the impact of such work. The presentations are free but advanced registration is required through the link provided below. * July 10: NCANDS Strengths and Limitations * Introduction: Cara Kelly * Presenter: Sarah Sernaker * July 17: Assessing Reporting Issues in NCANDS and AFCARS * Presenter: Alexander F. Roehrkasse * July 24: AFCARS Strengths and Limitations * Presenter: Sarah Sernaker * July 31: Survey Design and Using Weights * Presenter: Sarah Sernaker * August 7: Approaching NSCAW III for Experienced and New Users * Presenter: RTI * August 14: NYTD Strengths and Limitations * Presenters: Tammy White and Sarah Sernaker Summer Training Series Registration Link: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hMgJK9UATlOOB-KTdCiNLA NDACAN OFFICE HOURS LeaRn With NDACAN Special Office Hours Series 2024-2025 We are thrilled to announce that the 2024-2025 Office Hours series will feature live 30-minute courses on teaching data users to code in the R programming software, followed by 30-minutes of open support time and breakout groups. Each 30-minute R course will feature instruction and live coding, include a handout covering the core concepts and codes of the lesson, and be accompanied by an assignment for participants to complete between sessions to practice the skills taught in the course. The dataset used in the course and for the assignments will be made available through the website for the purposes of the course. The workshops will be recorded and turned into a webinar series on the NDACAN website. The workshops will build on each other, and videos will be made available within one week of the workshop so that participants who miss a session can watch before the next live session. The course will be free and requires advanced registration. We hope that you'll join us for this special Office Hours series and LeaRn to code R with NDACAN! Schedule (EST) LeaRN with NDACAN Course from 11AM - 11:30AM Open Support from 11:30AM - 12PM * September 20: Introduction to R * October 18: "Tidyverse" Functions * November 15: Basic Data Management * January 17: Linking Multiple Years * February 21: Descriptive Statistics * March 21: Data Visualization * April 18: Introduction to Regression * May 16: Introduction to Advanced Modeling Registration link for the LeaRn With NDACAN Special Office Hours Series: https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtce-rrjguE9Xx7Xk-ggIfD6Rxe-Jf7hwc CALL FOR DATA USERS TO SEND CITATIONS NDACAN maintains a reference list of scholarly work produced using Archive data. You can access the Child Abuse and Neglect Digital Library (canDL) directly or from our canDL Bibliography information page. Please visit the canDL to check if your publications that use Archive data are listed, and contact us if you have references to add (NDACANsupportcornell.edu ). When submitting citations, please be sure to include the DOI link. Featured Publications: * Adoption and Foster Care Reporting System (AFCARS) Beard, L. M., Choi, K. W. (2024) Disrupted family reunification: Mental health, race, and state-level factors. Social Science & Medicine, Volume 348, 116768, ISSN 0277-9536, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116768 * Longitudinal Studies on Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN) ages 0-18 Felt, J.M., Chimed-Ochir, U., Shores, K.A., Olson, A.E., Li, Y., Fisher, Z.F., Ram, N. and Shenk, C.E. (2024) Contamination bias in the estimation of child maltreatment causal effects on adolescent internalizing and externalizing behavior problems. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13990. * Longitudinal Studies on Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN) ages 0-18 Olson, A. E., Felt, J. M., Dunning, E. D., Zhang, Z. Z., Lombera, M. A., Moeckel, C., Mustafa, M. U., Allen, B., Frasier, L., Shenk, C. E. (2024) Child Behavior Problems and Maltreatment Exposure. Pediatrics, Volume 153, Issue 6, e2023064625, https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2023-064625 Follow us on Twitter for notifications about publications created from NDACAN data. Researchers who publish articles based upon NDACAN data are encouraged to tag us NDACAN_CU and include a clickable DOI link to the article with the hashtag of the dataset abbreviation and/or number which was used for the study (e.g. #NCANDS, #NYTD, #DS223, etc.). FORTHCOMING DATASETS * Dataset #283 Florida Study of Professionals for Safe Families (FSPSF), Waves 1-8 * Dataset #219 LONGSCAN Young Adult/NIDA Data * Dataset #TBD Integrated Foster Care Time Series * Dataset #TBD Children's Bureau Statistical Series (CBSS) * Dataset #TBD National Center for Social Statistics (NCSS) RECENTLY RELEASED DATASETS * Dataset #284 National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) - Services File, FY2011-2023 STAY CONNECTED TO #NDACAN For the latest updates on NDACAN activities, make sure to follow us on X (Twitter) NDACAN_CU . NDACAN curates its X (Twitter) content to highlight the availability and research potential of NDACAN data holdings, trainings, and user support services for child welfare researchers. You are encouraged to follow our feed and tweet your publications or presentations at NDACAN_CU to share the various ways that NDACAN is advancing the field of child welfare research. CALL FOR DATASETS Research has demonstrated an increased citation rate for publications whose investigators share data. Depositing your data with NDACAN can facilitate long-term preservation and provide researchers access to your data for secondary analysis. The Archive is seeking quantitative datasets to add to our collection. Please contact us (NDACANsupportcornell.edu ) if you have data or know of data that would benefit researchers, or check out the Contribute Data page of our website. Are you a member of our Child Maltreatment Research List Serve (CMRL)? The Archive moderates an e-mail list for discussions of research issues relevant to child abuse and neglect. To subscribe or to alter your subscription, visit our CMRL page. NDACAN Updata Newsletter Subscription Preferences NDACAN sends The NDACAN Updata e-newsletter to the CMRL membership, to our general mailings list, and to all active users of Archive datasets. If you would like to stop receiving general mailings, but still want updates about datasets that you're using, please email us using this link . If you would like to stop receiving general mailings and no longer use any datasets, please email us using this link . NDACAN is a joint project of Duke University , Cornell University , University of California, San Francisco. and Mathematica . The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect is a service of the Children's Bureau | Administration for Children and Families | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services