2-046 - Relationship of Child Outcomes to Child Maltreatment Types, Social Networks, and Early Head Start Programming

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

Each year over 3 million children are reported to child welfare services (USDHHS, 2016), yet only a handful of early childhood programs have demonstrated effectiveness in reducing child maltreatment. This symposium includes three unique papers describing the results across three Early Head Start Child Welfare Studies (EHS-CWS). Together, the studies extend the examination of the impact of Early Head Start (EHS) on child maltreatment and the impact of types of child maltreatment on child outcomes at 5th grade. The papers will: 1) describe an extended investigation of impacts of EHS on child maltreatment across childhood, 2) outline impacts of maltreatment type on academic and social-emotional child outcomes; and 3) examine networks of risk and protective factors with emphasis on how they differ among neglected versus other children. The symposium presentations will address the varied methodological approaches and innovative analytic methods used in these multiple studies. EHS-CWS utilized recently collected longitudinal child welfare data and data from the national randomized study of Early Head Start (i.e., Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project (EHSREP) for 2794 children and their families from sixteen of the seventeen of the original EHSREP program sites. EHS-CWS researchers analyzed administrative data from state child welfare agencies for an eighteen-year period (1996-2014), and reviewed case files in ten EHS sites. Programs like EHS that work with very young children and their families represent particularly important potential programmatic mechanisms for reducing risk, assessing protection, and supporting maltreatment prevention and recurrence.

Sub Unit

• Prevention and Interventions

Chair

• Jessica Dym Bartlett, Child Trends

Discussant

• Lauren Fischman, Children's Bureau. Administration of Children and Families

Individual Presentations

• Results of a National Longitudinal Study of Early Head Start Program Impacts on Child Abuse Prevention - Presenting Author: Beth Green, Portland State University; Non-Presenting Author: Carrie Furrer, Portland State University; Non-Presenting Author: Adam VonEnde, Brazelton Touchpoints Center

• Maltreatment Types and Social Emotional and Academic Outcomes in Children Eligible for Early Head Start - Presenting Author: Catherine Ayoub, Childrens Hospital Boston, Harvard University; Non-Presenting Author: Katherine Buttita, Childrens Hospital Boston, Harvard University; Non-Presenting Author: Adam VonEnde, Brazelton Touchpoints Center; Non-Presenting Author: Katie Kao, Boston University

• Academic Resilience After Maltreatment: Risk and Protective Networks Among Children Involved in Early Head Start - Non-Presenting Author: Rachel Chazan-Cohen, Tufts University; Presenting Author: Carrie Furrer, Portland State University; Non-Presenting Author: Teresa Schmidt, Portland State University