RMTEC - Rocky Mountain Tribal Epidemiology Center

Child Maltreatment Data Improvement Project

Implementing successful preventive services is proper documentation and surveillance of child maltreatment referrals and cases. However, current data collected by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in Montana (MT) and Wyoming (WY) is inadequate, entered in a narrative format and cannot be disaggregated from the database to allow for statistical analysis or identification of common risk factors related to child maltreatment. The purpose of this study is to work with the BIA to identify specific risk factors associated with child maltreatment among American Indian (AI) children in MT and WY and to develop a more specific analyzable database/ surveillance system which includes risk factors for child maltreatment. The new database will be distributed among all interested Tribes in MT and WY for child maltreatment referral data entry and surveillance purposes. Reports generated from this database will be used to meet report requirements and prevention programs.

Updates:

Planning Workgroup
Phase I of the Pilot Study/Pilot A: Going back by two years and entering already existing data into the CCPL database to see how much of the Social Services Assessment information was entered into the old database

Phase II of the Pilot Study/Pilot B: Training at least one social worker from
each Tribe opting-in on the pilot project, sensitive data collection and data
entry. Three trainings were conducted by RMTEC
Phase III of the Pilot Study/Pilot C: Advocating and dissemination of the revised CCPL database tool (developed into a web based database by BIA contractor) on other reservations for use by all Montana and Wyoming Tribal Social Workers.

Several abstract publications and presentations have been presented at various conferences in 2008 and 2009

Collaborations:
-Bureau of Indian Affairs –Child Protection Services Department

Some Workgroup Members

	Point of Contact:	Folorunso Akintan, MD, MPH
	Phone number:	406-252-2550
	E-mail address:	fakintan@mtwytlc.com

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