2017 - 2022
The Child Maltreatment Incidence Data Linkages (CMI Data Linkages) project aimed to explore how innovative administrative data linkages can improve our understanding of child maltreatment incidence and related risk and protective factors. CMI Data Linkages identified 5 sites using linked administrative data to examine child maltreatment incidence and related risk and protective factors. The project supported these sites as they enhanced their existing linked administrative data by:
- Using innovative methods to link/analyze administrative data;
- Linking novel administrative data sources; or
- Scaling or replicating an existing data linkage or analysis approach in a new geographic area or jurisdiction.
The project provided sites with access to experts to help address challenges and supported a collaborative cross-site learning network that facilitated communication and information sharing. The project simultaneously conducted a cross-site feasibility study to: (1) examine the factors (including state and local context, resources, organizational capacity, peer support, training, and existing infrastructure) that promote or impede the enhancement or scaling of existing administrative data linkage and analysis practices related to child maltreatment; and (2) determine the availability and quality of information on child maltreatment incidence and associated risk and protective factors that can be gleaned from linked administrative data. Findings aim to inform the accurate and ongoing surveillance of the incidence of child abuse and neglect and future prevention and treatment efforts.
This project was conducted through a contract to Mathematica.
Point(s) of contact: Jenessa Malin and Christine Fortunato.