Events

Monthly Office Hours

NDACAN Office Hours 2025-2026

For the 2025 - 2026 academic year, the monthly office hours series will feature a workshop or presentation for the first half and open support time in breakout rooms for the second half. Open support topics include dataset basics, study design, analysis, and coding support. Sessions will occur from 11am - 12pm EST on Fridays. A planned schedule of presentation topics is included below.

Free registration is required using the following link: https://ucsf.zoom.us/meeting/register/bhRBBkQVTUytMurIhxQPdA

Fall 2025 Schedule:
First Friday of each month from 11am - 12pm (Eastern Time)

October 3^rd: Changes to AFCARS Part I
November 7^th: Changes to AFCARS Part II
December 5^th: Changes to AFCARS Part III

Spring 2026 Schedule:
Second Friday of each month from 11am - 12pm (Eastern Time)

January 9^th: Summer Research Institute Informational
February 13^th: Flash talks by Outstanding Paper Award winners
March 13^th: Publishing with administrative data
April 10^th: Flash talks by data users for ongoing projects
May 8^th: Applying for grants and fellowships as a graduate student

Our past Special Office Hours 'LeaRn with NDACAN' R course is available here.

Summer Training Series

The 2025 Summer Training Series "Life Cycle of an NDACAN Research Project" presentations 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. The presentation are posted below.

July 2^nd — Developing a Research Question and Exploring the Data

Presenter: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Ph.D., Butler University
Session 1 Video | Session 1 Slides (PDF) | Session 1 Transcript (txt)

July 9^th — Data 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)

July 16^th — Linking Data

Presenter: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Ph.D., Butler University
Session 3 Video | Session 3 Slides (PDF) | Session 3 Transcript (txt) | Session 3 R Code (.R)

July 23^rd — Exploratory Analysis

Presenters: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Ph.D., Butler University, and Noah Won, M.S., NDACAN Data Analyst
Session 4 Video | Session 4 Slides (PDF) | Session 4 Transcript (txt) | Session 4 R Code (.R)

July 30^th — Visualization and Finalizing the Analysis

Presenter: Noah Won, M.S., NDACAN Data Analyst
Session 5 Video | Session 5 Slides (PDF) | Session 5 Transcript (txt) | Session 5 R Code (.R)

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.