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.

以经济支持预防虐待儿童 尽管有大量证据表明家庭收入和贫困状况与子女相关 关于虐待儿童的问题，目前尚不清楚这些经济因素是否对虐待儿童和 忽视。这项研究通过实验测试了一项名为项目收益的初级预防倡议的影响 (现在获得收入)关于降低儿童保护服务(CPS)活动和家长的比率- 报告了高危人群中虐待儿童的指标。项目收益旨在防止儿童 通过改善家庭经济资源和减少经济压力来减少滥用和忽视。的主要功能 项目收益包括对家庭自我确定的经济需求的评估，全面的资格 对获取这些资源的一系列公共和私营经济支助和援助进行评估， 协助财务决策，并(在某些情况下)获得一次性紧急现金 补充以缓解迫在眉睫的经济压力。 目标人群是密尔沃基市CPS报告和调查的家庭， 威斯康星州，但没有发现虐待或迫在眉睫的虐待风险的证据。这群人 家庭偏离了CPS，但过去的研究表明，他们被重新报告的风险很高 CPS，通常具有较高的风险情况。大约800个家庭将被随机分配到一个 对照组或治疗组，在基线时和12个月后再次进行调查访谈。 拟议的研究活动将支持对调查数据的分析，并收集 关于收入、失业救济金、临时援助的综合国家行政数据 对于贫困家庭(TANF)现金援助、补充营养援助计划(SNAP)福利、 儿童支持，儿童保育补贴，医疗补助收据，以及在24个月期间与CPS的互动。一个 还将进行项目收益的成本效益分析。 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影响。 儿童在整个童年的过程中。减少非致命性虐待儿童是#年的既定目标。 健康人2020(IVP 38)。医学研究所和国家研究理事会最近 建议将关于虐待和忽视儿童的原因和后果的创新研究作为 其关于虐待和忽视儿童的国家议程的一部分。尽管在过去两年中取得了显著的进展 几十年来，在了解虐待儿童的相关性方面，取得的进展相对较少 了解其原因。本研究将有助于通过以下方式缩小研究基础中的这一差距 试图隔离经济支持干预对儿童虐待预防的因果影响。 这项研究将第一次能够回答这样一个问题，即预防虐待儿童能在多大程度上 只有在选定的高危人群中围绕经济需要进行干预才能实现这一目标。