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The Ruth H. Young Center for Child Welfare Mission & Goals

Mission
To enhance the knowledge and provide resources and support for research in the areas of child maltreatment and child welfare.

Goals

Child Welfare Research Goals

  • To conduct research evaluating the effects of alternative methods of providing child welfare services on children, caregivers, families and the child welfare system.
  • To conduct research on the factors related to child maltreatment
  • To provide research methodology and statistical consultation to researchers from local and regional private and public agencies.
  • To develop a center website to disseminate finds, including descriptions of ongoing projects and reports available from the center.

Research Support Goals

  • To support writing proposals for research funding, including:
    • Consultation on research methodology, statistical analyses, and other areas as needed.
    • Administrative support for proposal writing, such as formatting of proposals, copying, routing, and preparing budgets.
  • To support faculty and doctoral students conducting research, including:
    • Database management, data entry and cleaning
    • Planning, performing and interpreting data analyses

 

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July 11, 2005

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