This report examines the recurrence of abuse or neglect following a case closure. The first step in this process involves the formation of a base dataset consisting of all children with case closures in a 12 month analysis period.  Intervals stretching out 3, 6, 12, 18, and 24 months post-case closure are then examined for additional substantiated allegations for these same children.   

(Please note that this analysis excludes allegation types 5001, "At risk, sibling abused" and 5624 "Substantial Risk", as well as incoming ICPC children.  Further, a substantiated allegation must be at least 2 days after case closure.)

In addition to an overall statewide table, breakouts by age group, gender, ethnicity, and last service component are provided below.  Children with an “established ID” in the assignment table corresponding with county specific code “99” for a case open during the study period have been coded as county equal to “state adoptions”.  As in other reports with breakouts at both the state and county level, children can be counted in more than one county. As a result, the sum of the children across county tables may not equal the total in the statewide tables.

Age - Child age is organized by the following intervals:  < 1 yr, 1-2 yrs, 3-5 yrs, 6-10 yrs, 11-15 yrs, 16-17, and 18+ yrs. Children with missing birth date information, or those whose ages are computed to be less than 0 or greater than 20 years, are categorized as Missing.

Ethnicity – Child ethnicity is collapsed into five categorical variables based on 31 codes (i.e., 30 primary ethnicity type codes and a Hispanic origin indicator):

1. Black (in CWS/CMS, Black, Ethiopian)

2. White (in CWS/CMS, White, White-Armenian, White-Central American, White-European, White-Middle Eastern, and White-Romanian)

3. Hispanic (in CWS/CMS, Hispanic, Mexican, South American, Caribbean, Central American, or those coded as being of Hispanic Origin)

4. Asian/PI (in CWS/CMS, Asian Indian, Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Guamanian, Hawaiian, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Other Asian, Other Pacific Islander, Hmong, Polynesian, Samoan, and Vietnamese)

5.  Native American (in CWS/CMS, Alaskan Native and American Indian)

Children for whom ethnicity is not coded are categorized as having a Missing ethnicity.

Gender - Child gender is categorized as Female, Male, or Missing.

Last Service Component (at case closure) – Service components, as defined by CWS/CMS, are as follows:  Emergency Response (ER), Family Maintenance (FM), Family Reunification (FR), and Permanent Placement (PP).