| The American Humane
Association, in cooperation with the American Public Welfare
Association and Walter R. McDonald and Associates, will study
unsubstantiated maltreatment reports in 10 to 15 States in order to
examine and classify the legal, definitional, historical, policy,
and case decision making similarities and differences across
States. The objectives of the research are (1) to determine how
differences in State policies affect the performance of the child
protective services (CPS) system with respect to the distribution
of case dispositions, including unsubstantiated reports over time
and cross-sectionally; (2) to determine how differences in
State-level resources affect the distribution of case dispositions;
(3) to determine what factors across States influence
unsubstantiated disposition decisions at the worker and supervisor
levels; and (4) to determine what State policy, resource, and
worker and supervisor decision making characteristics are
associated with differences in patterns and pathways of
re-reporting and in recurrence rates by disposition
type. |
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