M Feely
Biographic Data
| ID | 25299 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Feely |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Feely |
| SIGNATURE | FEELY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3743-4534 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Paid Family Leave
Maternal Employment Patterns and the Risk for Child Maltreatment
This study examines the complex, nonlinear, and understudied relationship between maternal employment, employment patterns, and four types of child maltreatment; describes the employment status and often nonstandard employment patterns of high-risk mothers at three child developmental ages; and applies the results in the context of three theories used in extant research to understand the relationship between economic hardship and child maltreatme…
Stay just a little bit longer
Improving child behavior through parent training in child welfare services
Behavioral parent training programs, such as Pathways Triple P (Level 5 of the Triple P parent support and training system, hereafter referred to as Pathways), have been shown to improve child behavior. However, Pathways has not been tested with a child welfare services (CWS) population. A mixed-methods, randomized control trial was conducted to examine its effectiveness with CWS-involved families. The sample included parents investigated for mal…
Home, but Left Alone
We use high-frequency mobile phone movement data and quick-release administrative data from Georgia to examine how time at home during the COVID-19 pandemic is related to child maltreatment referrals. Findings show that referrals plummeted by 58% relative to previous years, driven by fewer referrals from education personnel. After this initial decline, however, each 15 minutes at home was associated with an increase in referrals of material negle…
Childcare Subsidy Enrollment Income Generosity and Child Maltreatment
In the United States, childcare subsidies are available to low-income working parents to assist with the cost of childcare. The subsidies are provided as block grants to states, which allows for a great deal of flexibility in the specific policies guiding their distribution. Prior research has found a protective link between childcare subsidies and child maltreatment, but the variations in policies have been much less explored. The current study …
Changed for the Better
Rates of child maltreatment in the U.S. have been relatively stagnant since the 1990s. This lack of progress suggests that prevention efforts, which have primarily focused on individual behaviors, have been unsuccessful. Building on existing research, this conceptual paper identifies the need to refocus prevention efforts on changeable and causal risk factors. The Modifiable Maltreatment Factors (MMF), a new framework to classify risk factors for…
Quality Parenting Initiative
The efficacy of a voluntary, community-based program in preventing recurrence of child maltreatment
Community-based, voluntary child maltreatment prevention programs are a critical, yet under-studied, element of child maltreatment prevention and are particularly vital to the success of differential response (DR) programs. This study describes the 25% of families who are referred from Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families DR to a voluntary post-DR community program (Community Support for Families (CSF)), assesses the safety outcomes …
Early childhood education and care policies in the U.S. And their impact on family violence
Early Child Abuse and the Effects of Subsequent Witnessed Violence
That Which is Essential has been Made Invisible
The neglected ones
Connecticut’s Family Assessment Response system
This study describes the family characteristics, prevalence of risk factors, and explores factors associated with subsequent and substantiated subsequent reports of child abuse/neglect for the differential response track in Connecticut, Family Assessment Response (FAR). Results indicated that while relatively low risk, FAR serves families with significant issues. The results underscore the need for accessible and effective mental health and behav…
The Goldilocks Problem
The Structured Decision-Making Model’s risk assessment (RA) is a prominent feature of front-end child protection work. Examining how two different states have set policy to implement the RA, we analyze their distinct choices and unintended consequences. We propose that variation in implementation originates not from individual workers but from two nested sources. First, the RA embeds an implicit epistemological conflict between actuarially based …
The Social Welfare Policy Landscape and Child Protective Services
Contemporary child welfare policies in the United States are well-suited for prevention of child abuse but fail to account for the relationship between family financial hardship and neglect, that is, the lack of safe and consistent care. We argue that rates of child neglect have been stagnant because of two failures: (1) lack of recognition of financial hardship as a causal mechanism of neglect and (2) federal policy that purposefully omits allev…
Harsh physical punishment as a mediator between income, re-reports and out-of-home placement in a child protective services-involved population
The Relationship Between Interpersonal Victimization and Women’s Criminal Sentencing
Latent class analysis was used to identify subgroups of incarcerated women differentiated by experiences of child abuse and intimate partner violence victimization. The abuse subscales of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire and the Abuse Behavior Inventory were used as indicators. Data were drawn from a probability sample of 217 incarcerated women housed in two state-level prisons in North Carolina. Four classes were extracted—Low Victimization, C…
Inequalities in US Child Protection
This article demonstrates how structural social work theory and critical consciousness development can be used to help facilitate a transition from a deficit model approach to an inequities perspective in a child welfare system that was working to improve the identification of and services for domestic minor sex trafficked youth (DMST). The response of Connecticut's child welfare system to the issue of DMST is provided as an example of how a chil…
The Social Welfare Policy Landscape and Child Protective Services
Contemporary child welfare policies in the United States are well-suited for prevention of child abuse but fail to account for the relationship between family financial hardship and neglect, that is, the lack of safe and consistent care. We argue that rates of child neglect have been stagnant because of two failures: (1) lack of recognition of financial hardship as a causal mechanism of neglect and (2) federal policy that purposefully omits allev…
The Goldilocks Problem
The Structured Decision-Making Model’s risk assessment (RA) is a prominent feature of front-end child protection work. Examining how two different states have set policy to implement the RA, we analyze their distinct choices and unintended consequences. We propose that variation in implementation originates not from individual workers but from two nested sources. First, the RA embeds an implicit epistemological conflict between actuarially based …
The neglected ones
Connecticut’s Family Assessment Response system
This study describes the family characteristics, prevalence of risk factors, and explores factors associated with subsequent and substantiated subsequent reports of child abuse/neglect for the differential response track in Connecticut, Family Assessment Response (FAR). Results indicated that while relatively low risk, FAR serves families with significant issues. The results underscore the need for accessible and effective mental health and behav…
Inequalities in US Child Protection
This article demonstrates how structural social work theory and critical consciousness development can be used to help facilitate a transition from a deficit model approach to an inequities perspective in a child welfare system that was working to improve the identification of and services for domestic minor sex trafficked youth (DMST). The response of Connecticut's child welfare system to the issue of DMST is provided as an example of how a chil…
Home, but Left Alone
We use high-frequency mobile phone movement data and quick-release administrative data from Georgia to examine how time at home during the COVID-19 pandemic is related to child maltreatment referrals. Findings show that referrals plummeted by 58% relative to previous years, driven by fewer referrals from education personnel. After this initial decline, however, each 15 minutes at home was associated with an increase in referrals of material negle…
Changed for the Better
Rates of child maltreatment in the U.S. have been relatively stagnant since the 1990s. This lack of progress suggests that prevention efforts, which have primarily focused on individual behaviors, have been unsuccessful. Building on existing research, this conceptual paper identifies the need to refocus prevention efforts on changeable and causal risk factors. The Modifiable Maltreatment Factors (MMF), a new framework to classify risk factors for…
Quality Parenting Initiative
Harsh physical punishment as a mediator between income, re-reports and out-of-home placement in a child protective services-involved population
The Relationship Between Interpersonal Victimization and Women’s Criminal Sentencing
Latent class analysis was used to identify subgroups of incarcerated women differentiated by experiences of child abuse and intimate partner violence victimization. The abuse subscales of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire and the Abuse Behavior Inventory were used as indicators. Data were drawn from a probability sample of 217 incarcerated women housed in two state-level prisons in North Carolina. Four classes were extracted—Low Victimization, C…
Inequalities in US Child Protection
This article demonstrates how structural social work theory and critical consciousness development can be used to help facilitate a transition from a deficit model approach to an inequities perspective in a child welfare system that was working to improve the identification of and services for domestic minor sex trafficked youth (DMST). The response of Connecticut's child welfare system to the issue of DMST is provided as an example of how a chil…
Harsh physical punishment as a mediator between income, re-reports and out-of-home placement in a child protective services-involved population
Connecticut’s Family Assessment Response system
This study describes the family characteristics, prevalence of risk factors, and explores factors associated with subsequent and substantiated subsequent reports of child abuse/neglect for the differential response track in Connecticut, Family Assessment Response (FAR). Results indicated that while relatively low risk, FAR serves families with significant issues. The results underscore the need for accessible and effective mental health and behav…
The Goldilocks Problem
The Structured Decision-Making Model’s risk assessment (RA) is a prominent feature of front-end child protection work. Examining how two different states have set policy to implement the RA, we analyze their distinct choices and unintended consequences. We propose that variation in implementation originates not from individual workers but from two nested sources. First, the RA embeds an implicit epistemological conflict between actuarially based …
The Social Welfare Policy Landscape and Child Protective Services
Contemporary child welfare policies in the United States are well-suited for prevention of child abuse but fail to account for the relationship between family financial hardship and neglect, that is, the lack of safe and consistent care. We argue that rates of child neglect have been stagnant because of two failures: (1) lack of recognition of financial hardship as a causal mechanism of neglect and (2) federal policy that purposefully omits allev…
Early Child Abuse and the Effects of Subsequent Witnessed Violence
That Which is Essential has been Made Invisible
The neglected ones
Childcare Subsidy Enrollment Income Generosity and Child Maltreatment
In the United States, childcare subsidies are available to low-income working parents to assist with the cost of childcare. The subsidies are provided as block grants to states, which allows for a great deal of flexibility in the specific policies guiding their distribution. Prior research has found a protective link between childcare subsidies and child maltreatment, but the variations in policies have been much less explored. The current study …
Changed for the Better
Rates of child maltreatment in the U.S. have been relatively stagnant since the 1990s. This lack of progress suggests that prevention efforts, which have primarily focused on individual behaviors, have been unsuccessful. Building on existing research, this conceptual paper identifies the need to refocus prevention efforts on changeable and causal risk factors. The Modifiable Maltreatment Factors (MMF), a new framework to classify risk factors for…
Quality Parenting Initiative
The efficacy of a voluntary, community-based program in preventing recurrence of child maltreatment
Community-based, voluntary child maltreatment prevention programs are a critical, yet under-studied, element of child maltreatment prevention and are particularly vital to the success of differential response (DR) programs. This study describes the 25% of families who are referred from Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families DR to a voluntary post-DR community program (Community Support for Families (CSF)), assesses the safety outcomes …
Early childhood education and care policies in the U.S. And their impact on family violence
Stay just a little bit longer
Improving child behavior through parent training in child welfare services
Behavioral parent training programs, such as Pathways Triple P (Level 5 of the Triple P parent support and training system, hereafter referred to as Pathways), have been shown to improve child behavior. However, Pathways has not been tested with a child welfare services (CWS) population. A mixed-methods, randomized control trial was conducted to examine its effectiveness with CWS-involved families. The sample included parents investigated for mal…
Home, but Left Alone
We use high-frequency mobile phone movement data and quick-release administrative data from Georgia to examine how time at home during the COVID-19 pandemic is related to child maltreatment referrals. Findings show that referrals plummeted by 58% relative to previous years, driven by fewer referrals from education personnel. After this initial decline, however, each 15 minutes at home was associated with an increase in referrals of material negle…
Paid Family Leave
Maternal Employment Patterns and the Risk for Child Maltreatment
This study examines the complex, nonlinear, and understudied relationship between maternal employment, employment patterns, and four types of child maltreatment; describes the employment status and often nonstandard employment patterns of high-risk mothers at three child developmental ages; and applies the results in the context of three theories used in extant research to understand the relationship between economic hardship and child maltreatme…
Psychology (18 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (16 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (11 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (10 works) · Poison control (9 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Welfare (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works)