Joining Forces Joining Families, Spring, 2010 - LONGSCAN: The complexities and trajectory of child maltreatment

In This Issue
As part of our gaining new knowledge to support U.S. Army families, we often turn to civilian knowledge and databases to model our population. This issue is devoted to the Longitudinal Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN) studies, a consortium of five sites conducting research on child maltreatment. The project was initiated in 1990 with grants from the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. Our featured interview is with Dr. Desmond Runyan, Director of the LONGSCAN Coordinating
Center. We also include a brief review of the history and some highlights of the LONGSCAN. Our Building Bridges to Research describes some of the methods used in their analyses. Websites of interest directs the reader to the LONGSCAN website as well to the National Data Archive of Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) at Cornell University where the public use LONGSCAN data sets are archived and updated. As always, we hope that JFJF continues to inform and enhance your work with our nation’s service members and their families.