Events
Announcing the 2025 NDACAN Outstanding Paper Awardees!
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
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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)
We received many excellent submissions, which reflects the incredible rigor and breadth of scholarship among child maltreatment researchers and the NDACAN community.
Monthly Office Hours
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
Spring 2026 Schedule:
Second Friday of each month from 11am - 12pm (Eastern Time)
- January 9th: Summer Research Institute Informational
- February 13th: Flash talks by Outstanding Paper Award winners
- March 13th: Publishing with administrative data
- April 10th: Flash talks by data users for ongoing projects
- May 8th: 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
Join us for the 2026 National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) 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. We hope you'll join us!
This series is free but registration is required through the link below.
- July 1st — Overview of NDACAN Administrative Datasets
- July 8th — Data Cleaning and Management
- July 15th — Linking NCANDS and AFCARS
- July 22nd — Handling Missing Data
- July 29th — Data Presentation and Visualization
https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ib8sUk1fQeKiusyq8RlqUw
The webinars for the 2025 Summer Training Series, "Life Cycle of an NDACAN Research Project", are available
here.
Summer Research Institute (SRI)
NDACAN is now accepting Applications for the SRI 2026: please visit the SRI 2026 Announcement and the SRI 2026 Application pages for information and the application instructions.
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.
