Research Capabilities RESEARCH CAPABILITIES PROGRAM AREAS OF EXPERTISE: child welfare and abuse/neglect mental retardation & developmental disabilities child care mental health... and substance abuse women & minority issues welfare reform poverty employment and training service delivery systems service collaborations data integration information systems...

Frequently Encountered by Child Protection Services: A Report on Chronic Child Abuse and Neglect Lessons from the Beginning of Differential Response: Why it Works and When... it Doesn't, January 2012 Differential Response Improves Traditional Investigations: Criminal Arrests for Severe Physical and Sexual Abuse, May 2005 Permanency and Child Well-Being: An... of Independent Supported Living Services, October 1997 Supported Employment, 1994 Special Papers Families Frequently Encountered by Child Protection Services: A Report on Chronic Child Abuse...

of special expertise include child welfare and child protection, childcare, juvenile delinquency, substance abuse, developmental disabilities, welfare and welfare reform, poverty... Extension. January 2011 Case Studies in the Use of Flexible Funding in Indiana's Child Welfare Demonstration. December 2010 Nevada Differential Response Pilot Project: Final Evaluation...

Institute of Applied Research PROJECTS CHILD WELFARE CHILD CARE DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, MENTAL HEALTH, & SUBSTANCE ABUSE POVERTY, WELFARE, AND EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING CHILD... approached families with reports of child abuse and neglect that were not accepted for further follow-up by the Child Protection System (CPS). Before this project, famlies... of responding to reports of child abuse and neglect. The original evaluation of AR was conducted during the demonstration period from 2001 through 2004 (see the 2004 report in our Papers...