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NSCAW Child Well-Being Spotlight: More than One Quarter of Children Placed Out of Home Experience Placement Disruption in the First 18 Months After a Maltreatment Investigation

March 4, 2013
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According to data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW), 22.3% of children in families...

NSCAW One Year in Foster Care Wave 1 Data Analysis Report, Executive Summary

November 15, 2003
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This report focuses on a subset of over 700 children who have been in foster care for one year…

NSCAW II Wave 3 Report: Wave 3 Tables

June 27, 2014
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The National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) is a nationally representative, longitudinal survey of children who were the subjects of child maltreatment investigation.  At Wave 3, 36 months after the maltreatment report that brought them into the study, the children were 2-20 years old.  These Wave 3 tables provide descriptive information about the children’s characteristics and functioning, their service needs and service utilization, and their...

NSCAW, No. 14: Need for Adoption Among Infants Investigated for Child Maltreatment and Adoption Status 5 to 6 Years Later

January 15, 2007
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This research brief uses data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) to describe…

NSCAW, No. 16: A Summary of NSCAW Findings

January 15, 2007
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Beginning in 1996, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) responded to a congressional mandate for a...

NSCAW, No. 17: Psychotropic Medication Use by Children in Child Welfare

May 15, 2012
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This brief uses data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) to examine the use of…

NSCAW, No. 3: Children’s Cognitive and Socioemotional Development and their Receipt of Special Educational and Mental Health Services, Research Brief, Findings from the NSCAW Study

January 15, 2007
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This research brief describes the developmental risks present in a cohort of children coming into contact with…

NSCAW II Child Well-Being Spotlight: Children in Out-of-Home Placements Receive More Psychotropic Medications and Other Mental Health Services than Children Who Remain In-Home Following a Maltreatment Investigation

August 31, 2012
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Recent research has shown that foster children are more likely to use psychotropic medications than children on...

NSCAW, No. 10: From Early Involvement with Child Welfare Services to School Entry: Wave 5 Follow-Up of Infants in the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being [Note: A revision to Table 4 was made 8/12/10]

January 15, 2007
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This brief provides information about 962 children who were infants (zero to 12 months old) when they first…

NSCAW, No. 11: Adolescents Involved with Child Welfare: A Transition to Adulthood

January 15, 2007
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This brief is the first to focus on adolescents transitioning to young adulthood, presenting findings from the…