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Message ID: 11494
Date: 2025-12-22

Author:Andres Arroyo

Subject:NDACAN Updata Newsletter, Winter 2025 (Vol. 72)

THE NDACAN UPDATA Winter 2025 (Vol. 72) The NDACAN Updata is your source for important Archive announcements. SUMMER RESEARCH INSTITUTE 2026 NDACAN is holding its annual Summer Research Institute (SRI) on May 21, May 22, [May 25 no activity: Memorial Day], May 26, and May 27. The SRI is a free virtual workshop in which participants analyze NDACAN datasets over multiple days with close support and expertise provided by NDACAN staff and affiliates. The SRI also provides participants an opportunity for networking and collaborating with each other. The Application deadline is March 1, 2026. Please visit our Summer Research Institute 2026 Announcement page for more information and the application instructions. OFFICE HOURS 2026 During the academic year, the monthly office hours series features a workshop or presentation for the first half of each session and open support time in breakout rooms for the second half. Open support topics include dataset basics, study design, analysis, and coding support. Sessions occur from 11am - 12pm EST on Fridays. The schedule of presentation topics is included below. Free registration is required using the following link: https://ucsf.zoom.us/meeting/register/bhRBBkQVTUytMurIhxQPdA Spring 2026 Schedule: Second Friday of each month from 11am - 12pm (Eastern Time) * January 9: Summer Research Institute Informational * February 13: Flash talks by Outstanding Paper Award winners * March 13: Publishing with administrative data * April 10: Flash talks by data users for ongoing projects * May 8: Applying for grants and fellowships as a graduate student NDACAN OUTSTANDING PAPER AWARDS 2025 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 * 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) Additionally, thank you to all who submitted nominations! We received many excellent submissions, which reflects the incredible rigor and breadth of scholarship among child maltreatment researchers and the NDACAN community. CALL FOR DATA USERS TO SEND CITATIONS NDACAN maintains a reference list of scholarly work produced from the datasets in its holdings. 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 used NDACAN datasets 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. Please tag us on 'X' (Twitter) with @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.). Featured Publications: * Longitudinal Studies on Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN) ages 0-18 Choi, J.W., Cohen, J.R. (2025). Maltreatment-Exposure Screening and Adolescent Mental Health: An Evidence-Based Medicine Perspective on Accuracy and Fairness. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40653-025-00767-1 * Adoption and Foster Care Reporting System (AFCARS), National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) Wang, N. (2025). The Varying Effect of Placement Instability on High School Graduation for Youth With Disability Diagnoses: A Bayesian Analysis With Foster Care Data. Journal of Public Child Welfare,1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/15548732.2025.2585273 * Understanding Post Adoption and Guardianship Instability for Children and Youth Who Exit Foster Care (PAGI): The NSCAW Adoption Study Rolock, N., White, K. R., McGinnis, H., Bai, R., Koh, E., Jeon, J., Ringeisen, H., and Domanico, R. (2025). Belonging in Adoptive Families: Perspectives of Young Adults and Adoptive Parents. Adoption Quarterly, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2025.2583533 FORTHCOMING DATASETS * Dataset #309 Integrated Historical Child Welfare Database (IHCWD) * Dataset #306 NCANDS Child File FY2024 v1 * Dataset #308 NCANDS Agency File FY2024 v1 STAY CONNECTED TO #NDACAN_CU 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)? NDACAN 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 Winter 2025 (Vol. 72) The NDACAN Updata is your source for important Archive announcements. SUMMER RESEARCH INSTITUTE 2026 NDACAN is holding its annual Summer Research Institute (SRI) on May 21, May 22, [May 25 no activity: Memorial Day], May 26, and May 27. The SRI is a free virtual workshop in which participants analyze NDACAN datasets over multiple days with close support and expertise provided by NDACAN staff and affiliates. The SRI also provides participants an opportunity for networking and collaborating with each other. The Application deadline is March 1, 2026. Please visit our Summer Research Institute 2026 Announcement page for more information and the application instructions. OFFICE HOURS 2026 During the academic year, the monthly office hours series features a workshop or presentation for the first half of each session and open support time in breakout rooms for the second half. Open support topics include dataset basics, study design, analysis, and coding support. Sessions occur from 11am - 12pm EST on Fridays. The schedule of presentation topics is included below. Free registration is required using the following link: https://ucsf.zoom.us/meeting/register/bhRBBkQVTUytMurIhxQPdA Spring 2026 Schedule: Second Friday of each month from 11am - 12pm (Eastern Time) * January 9: Summer Research Institute Informational * February 13: Flash talks by Outstanding Paper Award winners * March 13: Publishing with administrative data * April 10: Flash talks by data users for ongoing projects * May 8: Applying for grants and fellowships as a graduate student NDACAN OUTSTANDING PAPER AWARDS 2025 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 * 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) Additionally, thank you to all who submitted nominations! We received many excellent submissions, which reflects the incredible rigor and breadth of scholarship among child maltreatment researchers and the NDACAN community. CALL FOR DATA USERS TO SEND CITATIONS NDACAN maintains a reference list of scholarly work produced from the datasets in its holdings. 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 used NDACAN datasets are listed, and contact us if you have references to add (NDACANsupportcornell.edu ). When submitting citations, please be sure to include the DOI link. Please tag us on 'X' (Twitter) with 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.). Featured Publications: * Longitudinal Studies on Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN) ages 0-18 Choi, J.W., Cohen, J.R. (2025). Maltreatment-Exposure Screening and Adolescent Mental Health: An Evidence-Based Medicine Perspective on Accuracy and Fairness. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40653-025-00767-1 * Adoption and Foster Care Reporting System (AFCARS), National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) Wang, N. (2025). The Varying Effect of Placement Instability on High School Graduation for Youth With Disability Diagnoses: A Bayesian Analysis With Foster Care Data. Journal of Public Child Welfare,1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/15548732.2025.2585273 * Understanding Post Adoption and Guardianship Instability for Children and Youth Who Exit Foster Care (PAGI): The NSCAW Adoption Study Rolock, N., White, K. R., McGinnis, H., Bai, R., Koh, E., Jeon, J., Ringeisen, H., and Domanico, R. (2025). Belonging in Adoptive Families: Perspectives of Young Adults and Adoptive Parents. Adoption Quarterly, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2025.2583533 FORTHCOMING DATASETS * Dataset #309 Integrated Historical Child Welfare Database (IHCWD) * Dataset #306 NCANDS Child File FY2024 v1 * Dataset #308 NCANDS Agency File FY2024 v1 STAY CONNECTED TO #NDACAN_CU 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)? NDACAN 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