Housing instability in child welfare-involved families: Impact on emotional, beh

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究拟对全国儿童和青少年福祉调查（NSCAW）进行二次数据分析，NSCAW是一项具有全国代表性的调查儿童虐待和忽视家庭的纵向研究。该项目的目的是为主要由于无法获得安全和负担得起的住房而与儿童福利服务联系的家庭提供服务。研究结果将为R01提案的发展提供信息，该提案使用自然随机对照试验来测试住房券提供与常规服务相比的效果。本研究旨在检验住房不稳定会影响儿童情绪、行为和学业发展的假设。首先，分析将检查住房不稳定性的个体内部变化以及随着时间的推移发展结果的相关增长。通过对住房变化进行明确的建模，分析可以直接估计进入和离开住房稳定性对发展增长轨迹的影响。分析还建议检查当照顾者获得住房券（以前称为第8节）时，儿童发育问题是否得到缓解或预防。如果住房不稳定预示着结果，那么获得寻找和支付住房的援助应该与更好的结果有关。在缺乏实验数据的情况下，本研究建议使用倾向得分匹配（PSM）方法来最小化选择偏差，并检验住房券对参与儿童福利家庭的影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This study proposes to conduct secondary data analyses of the National Survey of Children and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW), a nationally representative longitudinal study of families investigated for child abuse and neglect. The aim of this project is to inform service provision targeted at families in contact with child welfare services primarily due to the inability to secure safe and affordable housing. Findings will inform the development of an R01 proposal to use a natural randomized-controlled trial to test the effects of housing voucher provision compared to services-as-usual. The present study intends to test the hypothesis that housing instability disrupts the development of emotional, behavioral, and academic outcomes in children. Analyses will, first, examine within-individual changes on housing instability and associated growth in developmental outcomes over time. By explicitly modeling housing changes, analyses directly estimate the effects of moving into and out of housing stability on developmental growth trajectories. Analyses also propose to examine whether child developmental problems are mitigated or prevented when caregivers receive housing vouchers (formerly known as Section 8). If housing instability predicts outcomes, then the receipt of assistance to find and pay for housing should relate to better outcomes. In the absence of experimental data, this study proposes to use propensity score matching (PSM) procedures to minimize selection bias and test the effects of housing vouchers on child welfare-involved families. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The aim of this project is to inform service provision targeted at families in contact with child welfare services due to the inability to secure safe and affordable housing. Findings will inform the understanding of risk for housing instability and the development of housing interventions.