SOCIAL SCIENCE PROJECTS
CHILD USA’s Social Science team is hard at work! Check out some of the projects they’re working on to protect children below!
PREVENTING SCHOOL EMPLOYEE SEXUAL MISCONDUCT
Virginia Commonwealth University researchers from the School of Education and the School of Medicine, in partnership with CHILD USA, have been awarded funding by the CDC to study the prevention of school employee sexual misconduct.
CHILD USA’s GOLD STANDARD POLICIES FOR YOUTH SERVING ORGANIZATIONS
CHILD USA’s Gold Standard Policy is an evidence-based and expert-vetted set of policies that can be used by any Youth Serving Organization to protect the children they serve from abuse. It includes tools for prevention, training recommendations, reporting procedures, and much more to assist and advise organizations working with children.
**This comprehensive summary document contains the most critical components of CHILD USA’s more detailed and extensive version of the Gold Standard Policy. For the full policy framework, contact CHILD USA at info@childusa.org.
APPLYING CHILD USA’s GOLD STANDARD APP TO YOUTH SERVING ORGANIZATIONS
CHILD USA’s Gold Standard App is a diagnostic and educational tool for youth-serving organizations’ child sex abuse prevention programs.
The GS App is comprised of a web-based application and an optional report. In the web-based app, users answer questions about policies present within the organization being evaluated, and it produces immediate results for the user to view upon completion of the questions. The optional report is tailored to the organization and includes the following elements: a summary of the organization’s results from all who took the questionnaire, our independent analysis of which policies to focus on bolstering by priority level, and a roadmap toward achieving these changes.
The Gold Standard App is a valuable tool for lawyers to craft the non-monetary element of each CSA case settlement, from individual cases to consolidated cases and bankruptcy cases.
CHILD USA’s GAME OVER COMMISSION TO PROTECT YOUTH ATHLETES
This independent Commission investigated all aspects of the systems that enabled the abuse of Larry Nassar, examining how they failed, and released this groundbreaking report containing conclusions and issue recommendations to prevent child sex abuse in the future. It was composed of leading experts in the field of child sex abuse from the medical, social science, legal, and public policy arenas, each of whom is donating their time pro bono to the project.
SURVEY AND ANALYSIS OF THE WRITTEN CHILD PROTECTION POLICIES OF THE 32 U.S. ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESES
COMPARISON OF THE WRITTEN CHILD PROTECTION POLICIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAINT PAUL & MINNEAPOLIS TO THOSE OF OTHER U.S. ARCHDIOCESES WITH RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT
This report was commissioned by the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office, Saint Paul, Minnesota. The research was conducted by CHILD USA with Stephanie Dallam, PhD, (Lead Investigator) and Sabine Glocker, Esq. CHILD USA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit think tank that conducts evidence-based legal, medical, and social science research to improve laws and policies affecting child protection led by Professor Marci Hamilton. It is the leading non-profit think tank working to end child abuse and neglect in the United States.