This chapter focuses on the construction of risk indices and their use in predicting correlates of child maltreatment by exploring the relationship between the indices and the outcome measures of the Adolescent Parent Services Evaluation. This 3-year evaluation, which began in the fall of 1987, compared seven new parent programs in seven States offering education support services for pregnant and parenting adolescents. A total of 488 adolescents participated in the study. Using a nonequivalent control group design with each site serving as a comparison group for the others, researchers…
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On March 27, 1996, the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics sponsored a Town Meeting on Fathering and Male Fertility, the first in a series of related federal meetings and activities to develop better data on fathers. The Forum, consisting of the major federal statistical agencies, fosters coordination, collaboration, and integration of federal collection of data on child and family issues and federal reporting of child and family conditions. At the Town Meeting, invited speakers presented ideas for improving the federal statistical system's capacity to gather data on…
This report describes a project undertaken in 1995 by the National Center for Children in Poverty to map State initiatives for young children and families and to develop a framework to track changes in initiatives over time. Thus, the Map and Track project was designed to determine the initiatives that States are undertaking to promote the healthy development of children. The report begins by identifying developments that make information about State initiatives for children and families timely; describing the types of State initiatives tracked by the project; outlining proxy indicators of…
