Colleen Janczewski, a research scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Helen Bader School of Social Welfare, has received the 2016 Society for Social Work and Research Outstanding Social Work Doctoral Dissertation Award.
The dissertation, “Differential Response and Agency Decision Making: A National Study of Child Neglect Cases,” was noted for its inventive use of a national database to address a widely used policy innovation.
Janczewski’s research examined differential response, in which states allow low- to moderate-risk cases to receive preventive and supportive services without a full investigation.
Janczewski, who successfully defended her dissertation in 2014, is a policy and practice analyst at the Institute for Child and Family Well-being, a collaboration between Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and UWM’s Helen Bader School of Social Welfare.
