Events
Announcing the 2025 NDACAN Outstanding Paper Awardees!
We are thrilled to announce the winners of the inaugural NDACAN awards for Outstanding Paper and Outstanding Graduate Student Paper! Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Tanis (Outstanding Paper) and Dr. Anneke Olson (Outstanding Graduate Student Paper), as well as their co-authors and collaborators. If you're interested in learning more about their papers and research, please join us during our monthly office hours session on February 13, 2026, as they will be presenting their work then.Both papers can be found using the links below:
- Tanis, J. M., Klein, S. M., & Boyke, H. (2024). State paid family leave policies and infant maltreatment. Child Abuse & Neglect, 152
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Olson, A. E., Felt, J. M., Dunning, E. D., Zhang, Z. Z., Lombera, M. A., Moeckel, C., ... & Shenk, C. E. (2024). Child behavior problems and maltreatment exposure. Pediatrics, 153(6)
We received many excellent submissions, which reflects the incredible rigor and breadth of scholarship among child maltreatment researchers and the NDACAN community.
Monthly Office Hours
For the 2026 to 2027 academic year, the Monthly Office Hours series will feature a workshop or presentation for the first half and open support time in breakout rooms with NDACAN staff and consultants for the second half. Sessions will occur from 11AM - 12PM (Eastern Time) on Fridays. A planned schedule of workshops and presenters is included below —please note that the spring topics are tentative, given the time horizon. Presentation topics will not change, but the order may be updated based on presenter availability.
Free registration is required using the following link:
https://ucsf.zoom.us/meeting/register/IBf7BTQLTBeYnomxhXSpUg
First Friday of each month from 11am - 12pm (Eastern Time)
- October 2nd: Generating Research Ideas for Administrative Data
- November 6th: Introduction to NYTD Data
- December 4th: Recently Published Research
First Friday of each month from 11am - 12pm (Eastern Time)
- January 8th: Summer Research Institute Informational
- February 5th: Changes to AFCARS
- March 5th: Linking to NCANDS and AFCARS Using R
- April 2nd: Research in Progress
- May 7th: NYTD Research Example in Stata
The Office Hours sessions are not recorded or available as webinars: please plan to attend those sessions which most interest you. NDACAN welcomes feedback or suggestions about the timing of Office Hours if scheduling or time zone differences are making it difficult for people to attend. Please write to NDACAN@cornell.edu.
Our "Special Office Hours: LeaRn with NDACAN" R course webinars are available
here.
Summer Training Series
The 2026 National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) Summer Training Series with the theme "Laying the Groundwork" has concluded and the videos are linked below. This series was designed to strengthen the foundational skills necessary to conduct high-quality, impactful research with administrative data. Through demonstrations of data analyses which include walk-throughs of annotated code, participants can gain experience with key aspects of administrative data, such as understanding data structures, managing data quality, linking across data sources, and data presentation. For scholars who are new to this area or are seeking to reinforce essential competencies, this series can offer a thorough starting point for building rigorous research on child welfare using administrative data.
- July 1st — Overview of NDACAN Administrative Datasets
- Presenters: Garrett Baker, Ph.D., Duke University, and Alyssa Lindsey, MPH, University of California, San Francisco
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Session 1 Video |
Session 1 Slides (PDF) | Session 1 Transcript (txt)
- July 8th — Data Cleaning and Management
- Presenter: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Ph.D., Butler University
- Session 2 Video |
Session 2 Slides (PDF) | Session 2 Transcript (txt) |
Session 2 R Code (.R) |
Session 2 R Output (.txt)
- July 15th — Linking NCANDS and AFCARS
- Presenter: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Ph.D., Butler University
- Session 3 Video | Session 3 Slides (PDF) | Session 3 Transcript (txt)
| Session 3 R Code (.R) | Session 3 R Output (.txt)
- July 22nd — Handling Missing Data
- Presenter: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Ph.D., Butler University
- Session 4 Video | Session 4 Slides (PDF) | Session 4 Transcript (txt)
| Session 4 R Code (.R)| Session 4 R Output (.txt)
- July 29th — Data Presentation and Visualization
- Presenter: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Ph.D., Butler University
- Session 5 Video |
Session 5 Slides (PDF) | Session 5 Transcript (txt)
| Session 5 R Code (.R) | Session 5 R Output (.txt)
The webinars for the 2025 Summer Training Series, "Life Cycle of an NDACAN Research Project", are available
here.
Summer Research Institute (SRI)
The SRI is NDACAN's annual on-line research workshop in which participants analyze Archive datasets over multiple days with close support and expertise provided by NDACAN professionals as-needed. The SRI also provides participating child abuse and neglect researchers an opportunity for networking and collaborating with each other. Please visit our Summer Research Institute general information page for more details. Please join our mailing list, the CMRL list serve or follow us on 'X' (Twitter) to receive announcements about the SRI.
