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National Data Archive on Child Abuse Neglect.

[Erin McCauley]
So welcome to the NDACAN Summer Training Series. It is hosted by the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect. We are historically at Cornell University and last year at about this time we switch to being affiliated with both Cornell University and Duke University. This training series was an idea that we had to help support our child welfare researchers, you know today is kind of the introduction to NDACAN and the series so you'll be hearing a lot about the various supports and services that we offer researchers. But we think this is kind of one of our our core services. Each year we develop the theme for the summer and the topic of all the sessions from our feedback survey from the previous year. So whether this is your first time or you are an old hand at the NDACAN Summer Training Series you will receive an email from me at the end of the Summer Series asking for your feedback so please if you have any ideas of future topics or things you'd like to see again kind of hold onto them because you'll be getting that email from me. And so this summer's theme is Data Strategies for the Study of Child Welfare. If you've been to previous workshops we focused quite a bit on the actual data and what's in it and some research examples in this year we're really moving toward doing some analysis training and so we'll be talking about some of our existing data which you've heard about before like our survey data and our administrative data we'll be talking about linking them. But a big focus is kind of these data management strategies and analysis strategies and how we can really push research in this area forward. NDACAN is hosting it along with the Children's Bureau who are the ones who give us the contracts to oversee all of the data. And so here is an overview of our Summer Series. Each year we start with an introduction to NDACAN so you'll hear about us our data, what we do here at the additional support and services we offer. Next week we'll moving into the survey-based data so this is actually the first time we've highlighted these data in our Summer Series. So we're excited about that we'll have our data analysts here to talk about the data, what's in it, some tips, even some examples. The following week were going to do just a quick overview of the administrative data which we've highlighted in the series several times and then go through the steps of linking that data. You know it's especially good for our administrative data series because you can link internally and you can also link our administrative data to external data products. But you you know I think this workshop can also be helpful for people who are doing more general linking because a lot of the same strategies cleaning the data and reshaping the data apply. Then we're going to move on into our VCIS data and this is a new data set which we're highlighting which allows us to create a longer time span so great for things like policy analysis. And then we're going to be rounding out our summer with two analysis workshops so first we have the multilevel modeling workshop and then we have the latent class analysis workshop. So we hope that here we have a good lineup and lots of stuff to look forward to. So now I'm going to pass it over to Cara Kelly who is with Children's Bureau. She is one of our lovely bosses and she just wants to make a little introduction and say hello to everyone.

[Cara Kelly]
Hello everyone thanks Erin. So my name is Cara Kelly from the Office on Child Abuse Neglect at the Children's Bureau where I provide federal leadership and oversight for the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect. And I'm really thrilled to see how many of you have signed up to be here with us today just to kick off the Summer Training Series. And it's really because of the incredible partnership between the Children's Bureau and Duke and Cornell that the Children's Bureau was able to make child welfare data available to researchers and public stakeholders. You all are here today likely because you know how important data is to better understanding child maltreatment and ultimately working towards improved outcomes in the areas of safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families. I want to strongly encourage each of you to take advantage of the expertise of the NDACAN staff not only through our Summer Training Series, but to explore all of the resources available to you through this partnership. So on behalf of the Children's Bureau we hope you enjoy the Summer Training Series and are able to take away some meaningful information. And I will go ahead and turn it back over to Erin.

[Erin McCauley]
Thank you for that lovely introduction. And I think you know what Cara said there was really the most important thing to us that we don't think of ourselves as a kind of depository for data. We really want to be active in supporting the research endeavors of folks who use our data or folks who do research in the area of child welfare. And so with that in mind we're going to kick this off. So today we're going to be talking about NDACAN. Who are we, what do we do. We're going to quickly go over the available data sets to get a sense of it. What do we archive and how do you access it. And then I'm we're going to end with a little conversation about archiving data, why it's important and how we do it. So NDACAN. We are the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect which we call NDACAN promotes the secondary analysis of child abuse and neglect data by providing researchers with high-quality data sets, documentation, technical support, and encouraging collaboration within the scientific community. So we really see ourselves as you know this data especially our administrative data is already collected and so we are making a push to try and support people to analyze this data. It already exists so we might as well use it. We are now located at two institutions so we are doubling our resource access. We are at Cornell University in the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research where we've been affiliated for most of our history. And then recently we are now also affiliated with Duke University. So we'll be talking about our staff members and who is where but we are all working together and many of us actually started at Cornell and then about half of us made the jump to Duke. We were founded in the late 1980s and we are supported by a contract with the Children's Bureau. So here's an overview of our staff. If you have been attending our new Office Hours series you will feel that many of these people are familiar. So our director and co-PI, Christopher Wildeman is at Duke University. Our founding director and co-PI John Eckenrode, is in Human Development and Family Studies at Cornell University. We have two research analysts: Michael Dineen who works with the administrative data, and Holly Larrabee who works with the survey-based data and she will be leading next week's workshop. We have a post-doctoral associate, Alex Roehrkasse who really led the charge on the historic data acquisition so you'll be hearing from him VCIS data. We have our research associate Frank Edwards who's at Rutgers and he will lead some of our training workshops around data analysis. I am the doctoral research associate. I am at Cornell and Duke University. You may often see me hosting events or at workshops or conferences. Our statistician Sarah Sernaker who is at Duke University. She will also be leading some of our analysis workshops later this series. We have our project manager Marie she's really running the ship. Our archiving assistant Andres who is doing all of our background support and then our research associate Clayton who you'll be hearing from in the second half of today's presentation. And so that's a broad overview but if you ever need any support you can always just email NDACANsupport@Cornell.edu and we will route it to the appropriate person and get back to you. So an overview of NDACAN. Well we have a few activities that we consider core to our mission. We acquire data sets and our first mission is always to protect the confidentiality of those about whom our data is about. We transform that data so that it's usable by researchers. We disseminate the data for folks to do research with. We then support child welfare researchers and then we're also looking to expand the scope of child welfare research. So I'm going to go through each of these and a little bit more about what that means. So we acquire administrative and survey-based data to publicly archive. People who get Children's Bureau grants are often required to archive their data and so you get any type of grant where you need to archive data that's about child welfare you know we can archive that data for you and that's how we get this data for public use by child welfare researchers. The first thing we do when we get the data is first and foremost protect participant confidentiality. So I gave some examples here from AFCARS about what this looks like but basically it's just trying to eliminate the ability of anyone to be able to identify the individual people in our data. So in the AFCARS data which is about foster care, we censor counties with fewer than 1000 cases, we recode the dates like the child's date of birth to the 15th of the month, and then we adjust all the other dates to preserve the time span between dates. And this masking is really just to protect participant confidentiality while also still being able to do research about things like time spans. And then last if you've used our data you know that you sign data use agreement that basically says you won't try to identify anybody in the data and all research that uses our data must have IRB approval. Next we transform the data and this is really where our data analysts come in. All of our user guides and codebooks are created in-house. So if you are using a data for the first time and are coming back to a data that you have used in a while I highly recommend starting with the user guides and codebooks. I know they're really helpful for me in my research. And it's really just a good place to get started. So we also add variables. You know the variables that we find a lot of people are looking for or that we think would help people use the data especially in terms of linking. So again in for example AFCARS we add two character postal codes for each state such as NY for New York. We also add the child's age at certain dates so these are things we calculate using the existing data such as age at start. We've added a rural-urban continuum code RU13 because we found a lot of folks were interested in the urban versus rural differences. Then we also calculate a length-of-stay in foster care a variable called life lost. Other resources that we have aimed to help researchers use the data are on our website. We have analysis software specific support for importing data. We have guidebooks for merging data and then we also have all of the previous Summer Training Series which are turned into webinars. So all of that's available on our website and at the end I'll do a little website walk-through. So next we disseminate data. We have it ready for child welfare researchers. We license the data to eligible users. We then distribute the data and we do this in multiple data formats. So we can do .CSVs which are kind of a general format that a lot of folks use to import data. We can also do kind of .DTA which is for Stata and a couple of other versions. We also conduct ad hoc analyses for non-researchers so we find sometimes there are kind of community-based organizations or news sources that would like to analyze some data but they don't have the software or the kind of researchers in-house and so we provide that additional support. And we have support. So the electronic mailing list if you're not already on it I highly recommend it. This is how we advertise things like this training series. We put all of the opportunity supports, we put new data releases, but it also just fosters a community and a conversation between researchers in this area. We also have an Updata e-newsletter this goes out once a quarter, it talks about different upcoming events and supports, we talk about all the new data that's come out in that time period. Next we have what we call CANDL and this is a really great resource for getting started on a research project. It is the Child Abuse and Neglect Digital Library. So it's basically a library of all the research that uses our data. And so if you're interested to see kind of how other people talk about the data set or talk about linking data or if you have a question but you're not sure if other people have answered it before, this is a really great way to get started and just jump in. And so you can look at theses, you can look at published research papers in a peer-reviewed context, you can look at dissertations, there's a lot in there it's a really rich resource. Next we have the Summer Research Institute. And so this is one of our most popular resources. It is a competitive Summer Research Institute where folks submit applications for research projects using our data we then select people to be admitted to the Summer Research Institute and it's a four-day intensive research Institute where folks are able to work one-on-one with our statisticians and our data analysts, our directors pretty much any staff member. And we help people go from the idea and a familiarity with the data hopefully through to all of the analyses being done. So that's a great opportunity especially if you might need a little extra support in your analysis or you want to make sure you're linking things right. So I highly recommend checking that out and it's highlighted on our website we also have the summer training webinar series which you are currently attending. So this kind of first one's just a broad introduction to NDACAN but all of our future ones have more specific topics so you know I recommend looking at it and marking on your calendars which ones will be of use to you. And then this last six months we've had a new series called the NDACAN Office Hours. This has been kind of initially in response to Covid 19 and the lack of conferences that we were able to go to. But it is a kind of one hour time span once a month where the majority of our staff are available. The first half-hour is just one-on-one help. So we've got a series of breakout groups based on topic and you can go ask questions, listen to people talk, network with other child welfare researchers. And then the second half of the series is always a presentation on a theme or workshop. And so it's a pretty good balance of open support with some more structured support. We just completed the series for the spring and we are conducting evaluation right now. We are hoping to continue to series and so kind of look out for that in our listserv or on our Twitter where we also advertise a lot of these supports. And then we try to expand the research on child welfare. So we're especially interested in fostering interdisciplinary research teams. I know this year at the Summer Research Institute we had an interdisciplinary team set up a working group moving forward. We're interested in drawing in researchers from different disciplines so you'll see us at different conferences, workshops and presentations. We went to ASA and the social work research conference last year and held workshops, and Clayton and myself will both be at the American Public Health Association in October hopefully our first in-person conference since the beginning of Covid. We also host this training webinar series and so if you know folks who might be doing child welfare research but in different disciplines, please encourage them to attend. And then also at NDACAN office hours we're hoping to foster relationships between people working in different disciplines on child welfare research. And then we're also hoping to get folks who are interested in the area but maybe haven't used things like administrative data before to expand the bounds of their own research projects. So now I'm going to pass it over to Clayton who's going to be going through a quick overview of our available data sets. We'll be talking about more of them, some of them in-depth throughout the series, but this is just a broad overview.

[Clayton Covington]
Alright hello everyone and welcome to an overview as Erin mentioned of our administrative and national cross-site survey data sets and a few others that I'll mention for you so, when it comes to the majority of our data holdings we can put them into two camps. The first is the administrative data which if you're a previous user or just a child welfare researcher, you likely encountered the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System or NCANDS, the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System which is also called AFCARS, and the National Youth in Transition Database or the NYTD dataset which as you'll see later in the series can all be linked with each other to create some really nuanced profiles of children involved in the child welfare system. Another way to supplement some of these analyses is with the second cluster of data sets that we have which are the national and cross-site surveys. And so those include the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being or the NSCAW, the Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse Neglect also known as LONGSCAN, and the National Incidence Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect or the NIS. So those again these are the six major ones but we have dozens of data sets and so the overview I give today is not all going to be exhaustive but I hope it will be helpful and insightful into giving a profile of the offerings here at the National Data Archive on Child Abuse Neglect. So we'll start with our administrative cluster. So first starting with NCANDS the thing to know is that it was created in 1988 in response to the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act also known as the CAPTA amendment as a voluntary system in which case-level data are collected for all children who receive a response from a child protective services agency. And this these data contain a wide range of fields including child risk factors, caregiver risk factors, services are provided to a child and or their family, perpetrator data, and more fields and more additional fields. Aggregate data are reported annually in the Children's Bureau's Child Maltreatment Report and more granular data are available for request from here with us at NDACAN. Secondly, we have the AFCARS dataset which as opposed to the NCANDS is a federally mandated data collection system of case level information on all children who are under the placement, care, and/or responsibility of a title 4 E child welfare agency and for any children whose adoptions were finalized during the given fiscal year. And these data are organized by child and they report demographic, removal, placement, and other case related information. And there are a total of 37 adoption elements and 66 foster care data elements within data sets. States document relevant information in their electronic case records system then they compile the data and they send it to the Children's Bureau. The Children's Bureau then works with the states to hash out any issues with reporting inconsistencies, any errors and then they deposit them here with us at NDACAN. But because these datasets are constantly being reevaluated and updated it's very likely that you can see semi-regular updates of the data. So oftentimes if you've requested dataset in the past and it gets updated, you'll receive an email from Andres who will let you know hey there is an update here. We have this additional information and so should it still be relevant to you here's the updated dataset. And as you can see below there's a research a really recent research example in the Child Abuse and Neglect Journal from LeBrenz and colleagues. And lastly within the administrative data cluster there is the National Youth in Transition Database or NYTD and this is a part of John H. Chafee Foster Care Program for Successful Transition to Adulthood and it aims to improve outcomes for youth who in foster care who are likely to age out of care. And this law requires states to track services provided to youth. So for example their academic attainment, their career prospects as well as financial assistance that they may need and receive and it also looks at outcome measures such as educational attainment, access to health insurance, and histories of incarceration. So the way that the data set survey is structured is that at beginning at age 17 youth are surveyed on a voluntary basis every year every other year until they reach age 21. So the major distinguishing factor between the NYTD dataset and the AFCARS or NCANDS data sets is that this is a survey-based data set and that the first cohort of data collection began in 2011 and by the end of our current fiscal year, there will be three complete cohorts. But we've also already started data collection for cohort four and cohort five is on its way as well. And the research example we have here comes from Svetlana Spiegel and colleagues and also from this year and Dr. Spiegel actually sits on the advisory committee for the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect. So I would highly recommend reading some of her work. And so as another part of the federal collection efforts we mentioned we have the national and cross-site surveys which I'll give a brief overview of. So the first of those cross-site and national surveys are the NSCAW. And so the NSCAW is a longitudinal study which examines child well-being and it also captures information about children and their families providing information about child welfare intervention and other services, and it describes key characteristics of child development. So this is a dataset that is used by a number of different researchers across disciplines but particularly out of the psychologist and social work researchers that we service are particularly interested in the NSCAW data set because of the focus on child development. And this is sponsored by the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services. Relatedly we have the LONGSCAN data set which is data that have been given to NDACAN in public distribution by a number of researchers listed here as well as the larger LONGSCAN investigator group. And this is a dataset following 1300 children and their families as children age into adulthood. And maltreatment data are collected from multiple services including a review of child protective service records. Every year or uh every two years and in addition to those two years review of the maltreatment data there are yearly phone interviews that allow sites to track families and assess yearly service utilization and important life events. And the first investigator on this project Desmond Runyon also sits on the advisory committee at NDACAN. And last but not least we have the NIS. And this is a dataset that is conducted approximately once each decade beginning back in 1974. So in terms of time span this is one of the actual oldest data sets that are housed here at NDACAN. And it was created in response to requirements of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act. And it's designed to broadly estimate the incidence of child maltreatment in the U.S. and includes common definitional framework for classifying children by maltreatment type and the severity of the alleged maltreatment. And so while I gave you an overview of those six major data sets that get the most traffic on our website and amongst the research community that use NDACAN holdings, there are several others that we have and we literally have dozens of data sets but I'll highlight four more for you and then some exciting announcements of new data sets that we've recently acquired and distributed. So the first of the other data sets I'll mention is the Youth Internet Safety Survey or the YIS. We also have the Regional Partnership of Grants National Cross-site Evaluation and if memory serves me correctly we're actually we published a third wave of that so we're now on RPG-3, RPG-2 is also available at NDACAN. There's the National Juvenile Online Victimization Incidence study or the NJOV. And the National Child Welfare Information Study which if I remember correctly this organization also puts on a really cool national child welfare information seminar which we've actually been a part of in the past. And so if you have an opportunity to register for the virtual Summit it's a really good experience just to see what's going on in the field of child welfare and connect with other researchers. And so in addition to the really common data sets that I mentioned earlier we have some really exciting new data acquisitions that I'd like to highlight for you. The first of which is the Voluntary Cooperative Information System or the VCIS. And these are data that are collected on a state level annually for counts of children entering in care and existing in substitute care by race, age, sex, and duration of care from 1982 and 1995. The data were collected by the American Public Welfare Association from state agencies administering public child welfare programs. And what's really exciting about this data set is that it can be linked with aggregated data from the AFCARS to create longer time spans. So whereas the AFCARS originally begins its data collection in 1995 and then proceeds onward and in the field it's actually most common to like start after the year 2001 just because the data are a little bit more reliable. But you can actually expand the time span of the administrative data even further back using the VCIS data and one interesting point in terms of the time interval is that there's one year of overlap between the VCIS data set and the AFCARS so that you can also do some interesting comparisons about how the data mesh together. But you'll get more details about the VCIS data later in the Summer Series with our postdoctoral associate Alex Roehrkasse. So that will be really exciting especially for those of you all who are interested in more historical analyses and panel analyses. And then the other even more recent data set that we've acquired and since distributed is the SCAN policies data set. And this is a dataset compiling information on state definitions and policies related to the surveillance of child maltreatment incidents and associated risks and protective factors. And a primary use of these data is to allow researchers to link the analytic files to other data sources to address important questions about variations in state definitions and policies. And these also can be linked with the NCANDS and AFCARS as well as state administrative data and survey data. And this is a dataset that I think is really responding to a lot of the calls within the field of child welfare because one of the difficulties as you all I'm sure are aware is that even with the amazing and rich quality data that we have at federal level there are so many nuances and variation from state to state so the SCAN policies data set I think is going to be incredibly helpful at advancing some of those more complicated questions under different jurisdictions. And we're actually hoping to have the organization that partnered with NDACAN to distribute this, Mathematica, speak with you all and other people in the future since this data set so recently released in collaboration with our director Chris Wildeman. And so that has been my bit about our overview our administrative data sets as well as our survey and cross-site data sets and with that I'll pass things back off to Erin. 

[Erin McCauley]
Thank you Clayton. So that was a great quick overview of all the different data sets and types of data that we have available at the archive. And it's a pretty broad group so hopefully that was just a little teaser a little taste of what's to come. And we just wanted to end by talking about why we think archiving data is really important. So it really maximizes the utility of data. It allows data to be analyzed from multiple perspectives. So folks who are analyzing it secondarily may have completely different questions, orientations, and trainings than the people who originally collected it for the original purposes. It also allows us to preserve the history of child welfare. I think that's even more relevant now that we have this historical acquisition of this VCIS data that allows us to look out over a longer time span. And it also increases the research volume of issues on child welfare. We think child welfare is a really central institution in our country and being able to better understand it, it's history is really important and especially because a lot of the data that that we archive is administrative, this data is already being collected and so if we can use it from multiple purposes in addition to kind of running the child welfare system then we might as well. Archiving data with NDACAN benefits the contributor because we preserve your original data and increase the potential number of author citations. And it also benefits the research community by bringing a greater understanding to the study of child welfare through replication of existing work but also the extension of previous research with new questions, new perspectives and new ideas. So this is the link to our website. I'm going to walk through it a little bit in a minute but to download data once you get to our website you can go to data sets which that third tab there where the giant arrow just appeared. And then we have all of our data sets across the bottom so you have to pick one. Like if I wanted to download the NYTD data I would click the NYTD link. And then you get to the dataset information. This page will also have things like the user guides and my codebooks. But you can just click a little button on the side that says order data set. The website also has more information about the listserv, the digital library CANDL, it has information about the Summer Research Institute, has all of the prior Summer Series videos. We also create PDFs and video guides for linking our data and we have informational videos and checklists about archiving data. And then the contact information of the various folks involved in the archive. So now I'm just going to pull up the website. All right here we go and so this is what it'll look like when you come to the website NDACAN.ACF.HHS.gov also comes up if you just Google NDACAN from experience. And then here we have all of our tabs I think the most important for folks is the dataset tab which I just walked through. So if you hit data sets then you'll see all of our data sets here and any one you click will have information about how to access it, the variables included, and whatnot. In my own research I use the NYTD data so you can see that's pre-clicked. So if I click that and I see we've got service outcomes files and so let's say I want to use the original cohort here I would click it. There's information about what's in the data, we have the citation and then we also have these really crucial codebooks outcomes. If you click at the bottom it will actually take you to CANDL and then you can see the publications that use NYTD. But off at the right-hand corner going to be where we order the data set. So you click that. There's a whole bunch of instructions but essentially you complete our Terms of Use Agreement which says that you won't try to identify anyone in the data or use that for inappropriate reasons. Then you name it and send it into NDACAN@Cornell.edu with data order in the subject line and then we sent you the data. All of our data is free and available for use. And then I'm just going to quickly go through some of our user supports. So these are some of our guides for SPSS users about how to open the data, how to merge data, we have SAS, Stata and R. And then we have some information about merging the NYTD outcomes file with the AFCARS Foster Care file which is some of our most common links. And then under the events tab which is another one I'm going to go through but here is our pilot Office Hours. When we hopefully come out with the new series we'll put the information here. And then we have our Summer Training Webinar Series you can see information about this Summer Series but these are also the previous Summer Series. And then information about our Summer Research Institute. So that's kind of the crash course on our website. And so now we're just going to open up the floor to questions. I also threw up the emails for myself and Clayton so if you have any kind of direct follow-ups that's great but we also have a more broad support email which I just threw into the chat for everyone. So you can always send inquiries through that email address and then our internal system will route it to the most appropriate to answer your questions. And then quickly just because I know some folks might have to jump off early, next Wednesday Holly is going to come and talk us through these survey-based data. So we hope that you can join us next week at noon. So this was kind of our broadest overview session and then the rest of the summer will be down in the weeds. So if you have any questions please throw them into the Q and A. All right so I see one question are there plans to do any collaborations with the National Child Fatality Review Case Reporting System? Not that I know but I have to say that question is likely above my pay grade. Do you provide archiving services for non-U.S.A based projects? We are from Canada and need support with creating research ready data sets archiving. So I think historically we've mostly focused on the U.S. context. But I would definitely recommend reaching out through that one on one email so that we can provide support in answering the questions. You know I don't know if we specifically won't help if it's an international context but I do know that most of our data historically has been in the U.S.. Yeah we try to be very active in our email-based support so definitely reach out there. All right we have a question that came into the chat that says my agency focuses on primary and secondary prevention. Do you have any of your data sets which explore these areas specifically? If not do you know of any other data sources that do? So I would think in terms of primary and secondary prevention that some of the survey-based data might be more of use than the administrative data which really follows folks once they are involved in the system and is more population-level data. So I would recommend coming next week because Holly will be talking about kind of each data set and what's involved in it. Which might be a good way to assess if that cluster of data is appropriate. In terms of primary and secondary prevention, you know I think if you're also interested in looking at youth who have been involved in the child welfare system and their transition to adulthood and what type of interventions within the child welfare system helped support that, then the NYTD data is a really rich resource.

[Clayton Covington]
 There's another question that asks: are any of your projects replicated in other countries, example the youth in transition one? And I think one thing I should just clarify is that with NDACAN because we're sponsored by the Children's Bureau which is a part of the Administration for Children and Families which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services again basically a lot of bureaucracy there. But essentially our general jurisdiction and domain is U.S.- focused but I have seen a lot of research that has done comparative work across countries. But that's not necessarily one of our projects rather that something that people in the field have done so my recommendation to get a better sense of how those comparisons have been made specifically with the youth in transition one would be to go to the NDACAN website go to the CANDL bibliography. And you can just go there and look for the NYTD data tag and it will so you will list of all the publications that we have that are NYTD- related and you can see where there may be some opportunities for comparison in other countries.

[Erin McCauley]
 Yes, just as Clayton said I'd head to CANDL and I just popped into the chat the link for that. And for for example the Youth in Transition Database is an action intervention that we do. It's definitely run through the government and then we just kind of archive that data so that folks can look at the  effectiveness of different services. So we got a question coming in saying will today's recording be available on your website? And it will, the entire series will be turned into a webinar but it does take us quite a bit of time to get the recordings online because we make sure that they are all accessible. And so we'll be typing up a transcript and so it will be coming but not immediately. We announce when the individual videos are ready both on our Twitter and on the listserv.

[Clayton Covington]
 There is another question. It says "is IRB approval of research required prior to requesting data or after?" From what I understand the majority of our data sets that we've covered for you today you are required to sign the user's agreement with using any of our data but a notice of your IRB approval is required to be submitted to NDACAN as part of requesting certain restricted data sets. So examples of those we have restricted versions of the NCANDS Child File or the NSCAW restricted data file would be an example. I have heard instances however in which your individual institution may require you to submit an IRB just as a part of a data request so that's more of a question of your institution. But we only require an IRB submission specifically for our restricted data sets but you should also check in with your institution as well.

[Erin McCauley]
 Yes so often a secondary data analysis because the data are kind of mostly public and don't include identifying information you just have to submit a exemption application for your institution's IRB. So we have a question in the Q&A that says "you may have mentioned this already and I missed it but to you offer one-on-one consultations?" We offer one on one support via email through our support line but I don't I'm not entirely sure if that would count as a consultation. But anything that we we can offer we can get to you through that support line. We definitely offer one-on-one support through that. We believe we'll be starting up the Office Hours again pending a review and in that you know we meet one-on-one or in small groups based on different topics like statistics support and administrative data cluster support, survey data cluster support and then kind of networking publication advice. And so that's another great way to access those types of services. And then we do the ad hoc analysis requests for you know for example community-based organizations that would like to do some analyses of child welfare involvement in their state but don't have the requisite training. We also support those folks but put any inquiry through that help line and we'll connect you with the right person.

[Clayton Covington]
 And I might just add should you have a more ambitious project where you would like some more one-on-one support I think you could also consider applying to the Summer Research Institute. Our COR Cara Kelly who introduced herself earlier is actually a previous participant of the SRI. And so maybe she could even speak to her experience if that's something you're interested in the future.

[Erin McCauley]
 And I just put the link for more information about the Summer Research Institute in the chat so if you're interested in that I suggest looking at it. We also in our Office Hours series have previous SRI folks talk about their experiences. And then we also had kind of a pre-SRI application Q and A session so I'd also look out for future Office Hours announcements because we sometimes cover the SRI. All right if we don't have any more questions then we're going to shut it down. Thank you guys so much for being here. You know we really value the time that we can just spend with you guys doing workshops in the summer and all the great questions that people have so we hope that the rest of this series will give you some guidance for your research or the possibilities for using NDACAN data.

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The National Data Archive on Child Abuse Neglect is a collaboration between Cornell University and Duke University. Funding for NDACAN is provided by the Children's Bureau, An office of the Administration for Children and Families.