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Message ID: 11520
Date: 2026-06-16

Author:Andres Arroyo

Subject:NDACAN Updata Newsletter, Summer 2026 (Vol. 74)

THE NDACAN UPDATA Summer 2026 (Vol. 74) The NDACAN Updata is your source for important Archive announcements. SUMMER RESEARCH INSTITUTE 2026 NDACAN held its 34th annual Summer Research Institute (SRI) on May 21st, 22nd, 26th, and 27th. There were 13 participants who worked on analyzing datasets and received daily support from NDACAN staff familiar with the data. SRI 2027 will be announced later this year: please join our general mailing list to receive the announcement. SUMMER TRAINING SERIES 2026 Join us for our upcoming Summer Training Series! Our theme this year is "Laying the Groundwork." This series is designed to strengthen the foundational skills necessary to conduct high-quality, impactful research with administrative data. Through hands-on sessions, participants will gain practical 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 offers a thorough starting point for building rigorous research on child welfare using administrative data. Sessions will occur every Wednesday in July from 12 - 1pm (Eastern Time) via Zoom. This series is free but registration is required through the link below. * July 1st — Overview of NDACAN Administrative Datasets * Presenters: Garrett Baker, Ph.D., Duke University, and Alyssa Lindsey, MPH, University of California, San Francisco * July 8th — Data Cleaning and Management * Presenter: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Ph.D., Butler University * July 15th — Linking NCANDS and AFCARS * Presenter: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Ph.D., Butler University * July 22nd — Handling Missing Data * Presenter: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Ph.D., Butler University * July 29th — Data Presentation and Visualization * Presenter: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Ph.D., Butler University Summer Training Series 2026 registration link: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ib8sUk1fQeKiusyq8RlqUw REMINDER TO DATA USERS NDACAN notifies licensed data users when new dataset versions are released, such as updates to the publically available AFCARS data files. Users are strongly encouraged to download and use the most recent version of the data to use for all analyses, as earlier versions may contain incomplete and outdated information. 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 at the Zotero.org site . Our canDL Bibliography information page provides an overview. Please visit the canDL to check if your publications that used NDACAN archive 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) Moore, S., D'Errico, A., Keller, S., Vivian, J., Greene, A. (2026). Spanking Among Children with and without Neurodevelopmental Conditions at Age 6: Evidence from a Longitudinal Child Maltreatment Cohort (Brief Report) International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice Published: 23 May 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42448-026-00268-0 * Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) Greenlee, J., Blaustein, E. (2026). Disability Type and Racial Disparities in Foster Care Placement Stability: A Disaggregated Analysis. Children and Youth Services Review, Volume 183, 2026, 108800, ISSN 0190-7409. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2026.108800 * The National Survey on Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) Li, G., and Luo, J. (2026). Thriving in School-Age Youth: A Latent Profile Analysis of Social-Emotional Adjustment, Prosocial Behavior, and Academic Competence. Psychology in the Schools, 0: e70176. https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.70176 FORTHCOMING DATASETS * Dataset #296 State Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) Policies Database 2019-2023 v2 * Dataset #295 State Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) Policies Database 2023 v2 * Dataset #265 State Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) Policies Database 2021 v3 * Dataset #289 National SEEK (Safe Environment for Every Kid) Study * Dataset #219 LONGSCAN Young Adult/NIDA Data RECENTLY RELEASED DATASETS * Dataset #314 National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) - Outcomes File, Cohort Age 17 in FY2023, Wave 1 * Dataset #312 Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS), Foster Care AB File FY2025 * Dataset #313 AFCARS Foster Care File, 6-month periods (FY2018A - 2025B) * Dataset #306 National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) Child File, FFY 2024 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 Summer 2026 (Vol. 74) The NDACAN Updata is your source for important Archive announcements. SUMMER RESEARCH INSTITUTE 2026 NDACAN held its 34th annual Summer Research Institute (SRI) on May 21st, 22nd, 26th, and 27th. There were 13 participants who worked on analyzing datasets and received daily support from NDACAN staff familiar with the data. SRI 2027 will be announced later this year: please join our general mailing list to receive the announcement. SUMMER TRAINING SERIES 2026 Join us for our upcoming Summer Training Series! Our theme this year is "Laying the Groundwork." This series is designed to strengthen the foundational skills necessary to conduct high-quality, impactful research with administrative data. Through hands-on sessions, participants will gain practical 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 offers a thorough starting point for building rigorous research on child welfare using administrative data. Sessions will occur every Wednesday in July from 12 - 1pm (Eastern Time) via Zoom. This series is free but registration is required through the link below. * July 1st — Overview of NDACAN Administrative Datasets * Presenters: Garrett Baker, Ph.D., Duke University, and Alyssa Lindsey, MPH, University of California, San Francisco * July 8th — Data Cleaning and Management * Presenter: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Ph.D., Butler University * July 15th — Linking NCANDS and AFCARS * Presenter: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Ph.D., Butler University * July 22nd — Handling Missing Data * Presenter: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Ph.D., Butler University * July 29th — Data Presentation and Visualization * Presenter: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Ph.D., Butler University Summer Training Series 2026 registration link: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ib8sUk1fQeKiusyq8RlqUw REMINDER TO DATA USERS NDACAN notifies licensed data users when new dataset versions are released, such as updates to the publically available AFCARS data files. Users are strongly encouraged to download and use the most recent version of the data to use for all analyses, as earlier versions may contain incomplete and outdated information. 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 at the Zotero.org site . Our canDL Bibliography information page provides an overview. Please visit the canDL to check if your publications that used NDACAN archive 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) Moore, S., D'Errico, A., Keller, S., Vivian, J., Greene, A. (2026). Spanking Among Children with and without Neurodevelopmental Conditions at Age 6: Evidence from a Longitudinal Child Maltreatment Cohort (Brief Report) International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice Published: 23 May 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42448-026-00268-0 * Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) Greenlee, J., Blaustein, E. (2026). Disability Type and Racial Disparities in Foster Care Placement Stability: A Disaggregated Analysis. Children and Youth Services Review, Volume 183, 2026, 108800, ISSN 0190-7409. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2026.108800 * The National Survey on Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) Li, G., and Luo, J. (2026). Thriving in School-Age Youth: A Latent Profile Analysis of Social-Emotional Adjustment, Prosocial Behavior, and Academic Competence. Psychology in the Schools, 0: e70176. https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.70176 FORTHCOMING DATASETS * Dataset #296 State Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) Policies Database 2019-2023 v2 * Dataset #295 State Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) Policies Database 2023 v2 * Dataset #265 State Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) Policies Database 2021 v3 * Dataset #289 National SEEK (Safe Environment for Every Kid) Study * Dataset #219 LONGSCAN Young Adult/NIDA Data RECENTLY RELEASED DATASETS * Dataset #314 National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) - Outcomes File, Cohort Age 17 in FY2023, Wave 1 * Dataset #312 Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS), Foster Care AB File FY2025 * Dataset #313 AFCARS Foster Care File, 6-month periods (FY2018A - 2025B) * Dataset #306 National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) Child File, FFY 2024 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