# DISSEMINATION AND OUTREACH CORE

> **NIH NIH P50** · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · 2021 · $336,962

## Abstract

Child maltreatment is a public health crisis that assaults the most vulnerable in our society. Unfortunately, its 
victims have not fully benefitted from evidence-driven legislative action to the same extent as other serious 
public health issues (e.g., smoking, obesity). To increase reliance on child maltreatment research for policy 
and practice, the field requires a national hub to actively: (1) translate scientific findings, (2) engage end-users, 
and (3) package key messages into high-impact communication products. The Translational Center for Child 
Maltreatment Studies' Dissemination and Outreach Core (DOC) will develop such models to serve this role, 
thus incubating solutions to overcome systemic barriers and accelerating dissemination. DOC Aim 1 is to 
translate research findings produced by TCCMS investigators into scientific leverage for guiding public 
investments in child protection. This will involve using unprecedented access to multiple administrative record 
systems to map the fiscal cost of child maltreatment across service systems. Building on this, the DOC will link 
Project 1's PA Cohort with administrative records to develop models for predicting downstream public costs 
(e.g., healthcare, crime social service). With this unique data infrastructure, the DOC will be able to evaluate 
the return-on-investment from strategies to detect, treat, and prevent child maltreatment—including the Clinical 
Decision Rule (CDR) for Abusive Head Trauma tested in Project 2. This strategic focus on quantifying public 
and private costs will frame child maltreatment prevention and treatment as not only a key public health issue, 
but a matter of fiscal responsibility. DOC Aim 2 will employ a Community-based Participatory Research 
(CBPR) Model in two powerful demonstration projects: (1) to devise and test workable solutions that will 
facilitate implementation of new child welfare laws; and (2) to develop data-driven solutions to reduced 
caseworker turnover. This model will serve as a national resource for the dissemination of evidence-based 
tools, and will assist the many states similar to PA where massive child welfare reform has occurred without 
appropriation of essential resources to assist implementation. Finally, DOC Aim 3 will package the scientific 
leverage and innovative solutions developed in Aims 1 & 2 into communications that resonate deeply with 
end-users and policy-makers. This will include a policy brief series to provide empirically-driven guidance around 
detection, treatment, and prevention of child maltreatment. Through this work, the DOC will provide the 
foundation of the TCCMS Research-to-Policy Bridge and develop a national model for accelerating the 
dissemination of scientific knowledge and strategies for evidence-based policy and practice.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10187607
- **Project number:** 5P50HD089922-05
- **Recipient organization:** PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
- **Principal Investigator:** Daniel Max Crowley
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $336,962
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-04-20 → 2023-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10187607

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10187607, DISSEMINATION AND OUTREACH CORE (5P50HD089922-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10187607. Licensed CC0.

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