Preventing Child Maltreatment with Economic Supports

通过经济支持防止虐待儿童

• 批准号: 9234654
• 负责人: Lawrence M Berger
• 金额: $ 35万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9234654
• 关键词: Preventing; Child; Maltreatment; Economic; Supports

Preventing Child Maltreatment with Economic Supports Despite the wealth of evidence that family income and poverty status are correlated with child maltreatment, it is unknown whether such economic factors play a causal role with regard to child abuse and neglect. This research experimentally tests the impact of a primary prevention initiative called Project GAIN (Getting Access to Income Now) on reducing rates of child protective services (CPS) events and parent- reported indicators of child maltreatment in a high risk population. Project GAIN is designed to prevent child abuse and neglect by improving family economic resources and reducing financial stressors. Key features of Project GAIN include an assessment of families' self-identified economic needs, a comprehensive eligibility assessment for an array of public and private economic supports and assistance accessing these resources, assistance with financial decision-making, and (in some cases) access to one-time emergency cash supplements to alleviate immediate financial stressors. The target population is families who have been reported to and investigated by CPS in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but for whom no evidence of maltreatment or imminent maltreatment risk was found. This group of families is deflected from CPS, but past research has shown that they have a high risk of being re-reported to CPS, often with elevated situations of risk. Approximately 800 families will be randomly assigned to either a control or treatment group and will be administered a survey interview at baseline and again 12 months later. The proposed research activities will support the analysis of survey data, and the collection of a comprehensive array of state administrative data on earnings, unemployment benefits, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) cash assistance, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, child support, child care subsidies, Medicaid receipt, and interactions with CPS over a 24-month period. A cost-benefit analysis of Project GAIN will also be conducted. Child maltreatment is a long-standing public health problem that is estimated to affect over 1 in 10 U.S. children over the course of childhood. The reduction of nonfatal child maltreatment is a stated objective of Healthy People 2020 (IVP 38). The Institute of Medicine and National Research Council recently recommended targeting innovative research on the causes and consequences of child abuse and neglect as part of its National Agenda for Child Abuse and Neglect Research. Despite significant gains over the past two decades in understanding the correlates of child maltreatment, relatively little progress has been made in understanding its causes. The present study will contribute to closing this gap in the research base by attempting to isolate the causal impact of an economic support intervention on child maltreatment prevention. This study will, for the first time, be able to answer the question of how much child maltreatment prevention can be achieved by intervening only around economic needs in a select high-risk population.

以经济支持预防儿童虐待 尽管有大量的证据表明，家庭收入和贫困状况与儿童 由于虐待儿童，不知道这种经济因素是否在虐待儿童方面起着因果作用， 疏忽这项研究实验性地测试了一项名为GAIN项目的初级预防措施的影响 （现在获得收入）关于降低儿童保护服务（CPS）事件和父母的比率， 报告的高风险人群中存在虐待儿童的指标。GAIN项目旨在防止儿童 通过改善家庭经济资源和减少经济压力，消除虐待和忽视现象。的关键特征 GAIN项目包括评估家庭自我确定的经济需求， 评估获得这些资源的一系列公共和私营经济支持和援助， 协助财务决策，以及（在某些情况下）获得一次性紧急现金 补充资金，以缓解当前的财务压力。 目标人群是密尔沃基的CPS报告和调查的家庭， 威斯康星州，但没有发现虐待或即将发生虐待风险的证据。 家庭偏离CPS，但过去的研究表明，他们有很高的风险被重新报告给 CPS，通常具有升高的风险情况。大约800个家庭将被随机分配到一个 对照组或治疗组，并将在基线和12个月后再次进行调查访谈。 拟议的研究活动将支持调查数据的分析， 关于收入、失业救济金、临时援助的全面的州行政数据 贫困家庭（TANF）现金援助，补充营养援助计划（SNAP）福利， 儿童抚养费，儿童保育补贴，医疗补助收据，以及24个月内与CPS的互动。一 还将对GAIN项目进行成本效益分析。 虐待儿童是一个长期存在的公共卫生问题，据估计，超过十分之一的美国人受到虐待。 儿童在童年的过程中。减少非致命性虐待儿童是一个明确的目标， 健康人2020（IVP 38）。医学研究所和国家研究理事会最近 建议针对虐待和忽视儿童的原因和后果开展创新研究， 国家虐待儿童和虐待儿童研究议程的一部分。尽管在过去两年中取得了重大进展， 几十年来，在理解虐待儿童的相关性方面， 了解其原因。本研究报告将有助于缩小研究基础方面的这一差距， 试图分离出经济支助干预对预防虐待儿童的因果影响。 这项研究将首次能够回答预防儿童虐待在多大程度上能够 通过仅围绕选定的高风险人群的经济需求进行干预来实现。