Prepared by:
The Urban Institute
Prepared for:
U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning
and Evaluation
Office of Human Services Policy
Jerry Regier, Deputy Assistant Secretary
With funding from the Administration for
Children and Families
Administration on Children,
Youth, and Families
Children's Bureau
April 2006
Contract HHS-100-01-0014
This report is available on the Internet at:
http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/06/CW-involve-dads/
ASPE Issue Brief (in PDF format)
Research Summary (in PDF format)
Executive Summary (in
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Acknowledgments
The authors would like to acknowledge the assistance of many individuals. First, we wish to thank state child welfare and child support officials for their support and cooperation throughout the study-Janice Mickens, Dave Graham, Bill Aldrich, Nick Espadas, and Teresa Coffman in Arizona; Mia Alvarado, Mary Kennedy, Kathleen McCarthy, and Mary Cummings in Massachusetts; Dorothy Renstrom, Erin Sullivan-Sutton, Alexandra Beutel, and Mary Arveson in Minnesota; and Paul Montebello, John Brown, Deborah Vines, and Jason Johnson in Tennessee. Most importantly, we wish to thank the hundreds of front-line caseworkers in the four states as well as the local child welfare administrators who provided their time and input to this study.
Our subcontractor, the National Opinion Research Center (NORC), had overall responsibility for the study's caseworker data collection. NORC staff members, Dennis Dew and Lauren Doerr, provided exceptional direction and management of the caseworker telephone interviews.
In addition to the authors, several current and former Urban Institute staff contributed to the study. Dr. Freya Sonenstein contributed to the overall study design and early direction of the study. Henry Chen was invaluable in conducting the many statistical analyses throughout the study. Drs. Matthew Stagner, Elaine Sorensen, and Marla McDaniel provided substantive and editorial contributions.
We also wish to express our thanks to our Federal Project Officers, Laura Feig Radel and Linda Mellgren, for their invaluable oversight and input throughout the course of the study.
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Malm K., Murray J. and Geen R. What About the Dads? Child Welfare Agencies’ Efforts to Identify, Locate and Involve Nonresident Fathers. (Washington, D.C.: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, 2006).
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