Home Visiting and Child Welfare Involvement: A Matched Comparison Group Study

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Our newly published study in Child Maltreatment reinforces the importance of considering unsubstantiated child welfare investigations in research on home visiting. It is one of the largest quasi-experimental studies to date on the effects of home visiting on documented child maltreatment during a child’s first two years of life. This publication is part of our ongoing work to build the evidence base around PN3 policies.

 

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