Child-Maltreatment-Research-L (CMRL) List Serve

Message ID: 11455

Date: 2025-05-23

Author:Logan, Paige

Subject:NDACAN STS and Paper Awards

Hello everyone, Happy Friday! Sending a quick reminder about two announcements / opportunities to keep on your radar. See below for information about NDACAN’s (1) Summer Training series and (2) Outstanding Paper Awards. Flyers are also attached! Please share with anyone in your networks who may be interested. Thanks, Paige Summer Training Series – starts July 2nd! Please join us for the 2025 National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect’s (NDACAN) Summer Training Series!!! The theme of the 2025 series is Life Cycle of an NDACAN Research Project. Presentations will guide participants through a research project using NDACAN administrative data (NYTD and AFCARS datasets), from idea generation and basic data cleaning through the presentation of results. The Summer Training Series helps participants advance research projects using our data and increases the impact of such work. We hope you’ll join us this summer! This series is free. Registration is required, use this link to register now! Sessions will occur on the following Wednesdays from 12–1PM EST via Zoom. * July 2nd – Developing a Research Question and Exploring the Data Presenter: Alexander Roehrkasse * July 9th – Data Management Presenter: Alexander Roehrkasse * July 16th – Linking Data Presenter: Alexander Roehrkasse * July 23rd – Exploratory Analysis Presenters: Alexander Roehrkasse and Noah Won * July 30th – Visualization and Finalizing the Analysis Presenter: Noah Won Outstanding Paper Awards – due July 16th! The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) is thrilled to announce two new biennial paper awards! Nominations are due by July 16, 2025, at 5pm PT. * The Outstanding Paper Award will recognize a piece of exemplary scholarship using NDACAN data holdings that engages with current child welfare research and sets a larger agenda for the field. Preference will be given to scholarship that is rigorous, demonstrates excellence in the use of NDACAN data, and makes a significant contribution to the study of and, ideally, practice of child welfare. * The Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award will recognize a piece of exemplary scholarship authored by a graduate student using NDACAN data holdings that has the potential to make a significant contribution to the field of child welfare and is on the “cutting edge” of inquiry. Preference will also be given to nominees’ whose work has the potential to decrease children’s exposure to maltreatment or plausibly unnecessary contact with the child welfare system. Please email nominations as a single PDF to paige.loganprater@ucsf.edu with the subject “NDACAN Outstanding Paper Nomination”. Winners will be awarded a plaque, recognized in NDACAN promotional materials, and serve on the review committee for future awards. Self-nominations are accepted and encouraged! Nominators may only nominate one nominee for this award. Nomination materials required: * Nominating letter highlighting (limit 2 paragraphs): * Methodological rigor and excellence * Impact on the field * Abstract of the writing sample (no more than 300 words) * One article-length paper using NDACAN data Paige Logan Prater, MPH (she/her/hers ) (pronounced pray-ter) paige.loganprater@ucsf.edu Sociology PhD Candidate Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco UCSF sits upon the traditional unceded lands of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples .

Hello everyone, Happy Friday! Sending a quick reminder about two announcements / opportunities to keep on your radar. See below for information about NDACAN’s (1) Summer Training series and (2) Outstanding Paper Awards. Flyers are also attached! Please share with anyone in your networks who may be interested. Thanks, Paige Summer Training Series – starts July 2nd! Please join us for the 2025 National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect’s (NDACAN) Summer Training Series!!! The theme of the 2025 series is Life Cycle of an NDACAN Research Project. Presentations will guide participants through a research project using NDACAN administrative data (NYTD and AFCARS datasets), from idea generation and basic data cleaning through the presentation of results. The Summer Training Series helps participants advance research projects using our data and increases the impact of such work. We hope you’ll join us this summer! This series is free. Registration is required, use this link to register now! Sessions will occur on the following Wednesdays from 12–1PM EST via Zoom. * July 2nd – Developing a Research Question and Exploring the Data Presenter: Alexander Roehrkasse * July 9th – Data Management Presenter: Alexander Roehrkasse * July 16th – Linking Data Presenter: Alexander Roehrkasse * July 23rd – Exploratory Analysis Presenters: Alexander Roehrkasse and Noah Won * July 30th – Visualization and Finalizing the Analysis Presenter: Noah Won Outstanding Paper Awards – due July 16th! The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) is thrilled to announce two new biennial paper awards! Nominations are due by July 16, 2025, at 5pm PT. * The Outstanding Paper Award will recognize a piece of exemplary scholarship using NDACAN data holdings that engages with current child welfare research and sets a larger agenda for the field. Preference will be given to scholarship that is rigorous, demonstrates excellence in the use of NDACAN data, and makes a significant contribution to the study of and, ideally, practice of child welfare. * The Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award will recognize a piece of exemplary scholarship authored by a graduate student using NDACAN data holdings that has the potential to make a significant contribution to the field of child welfare and is on the “cutting edge” of inquiry. Preference will also be given to nominees’ whose work has the potential to decrease children’s exposure to maltreatment or plausibly unnecessary contact with the child welfare system. Please email nominations as a single PDF to paige.loganpraterucsf.edu with the subject “NDACAN Outstanding Paper Nomination”. Winners will be awarded a plaque, recognized in NDACAN promotional materials, and serve on the review committee for future awards. Self-nominations are accepted and encouraged! Nominators may only nominate one nominee for this award. Nomination materials required: * Nominating letter highlighting (limit 2 paragraphs): * Methodological rigor and excellence * Impact on the field * Abstract of the writing sample (no more than 300 words) * One article-length paper using NDACAN data Paige Logan Prater, MPH (she/her/hers ) (pronounced pray-ter) paige.loganpraterucsf.edu Sociology PhD Candidate Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco UCSF sits upon the traditional unceded lands of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples .