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020 _a978-1-99-002342-2
040 _aAFVC
100 _aWalsh, Matthew C.
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245 _aSchool readiness, adversities of childhood experience and access to government services :
_ba scoping study on potential protective factors
_cM.C. Walsh, T. Maloney, R. Vaithianathan and P. Pereda-Perez
260 _aWellington, New Zealand :
_bMinistry of Social Development,
_c2020
300 _aelectronic document (23 pages) ; PDF file
500 _aPublished December 2020
520 _aThis report provides preliminary empirical evidence on the prevalence and nature of potential protective factors that may offset the detrimental effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on indicators of school readiness. These results are generated from an observational study based on the availability and choices made about accessing health care, early childhood education, and social services. We conduct a broad search for mutable factors that have a statistically significant differential impact of ACEs on seven indicators of school readiness of children in the Growing Up in New Zealand (GUiNZ) birth cohort. ACEs include exposure to maltreatment, witnessing violence, living with household members with mental illness, those who abuse substances, have a history of incarceration, or have experienced parental divorce. Our sample consisted of 5,562 children followed over nearly five years and four separate parental surveys. We combed through the GUiNZ data for every possible protective factor that we could identify. This resulted in a total of 372 distinct measures that were placed into the three categories of Health Care, Early Childhood Education and Social Services, and further demarcated by the areas of Utilisation, Access, Quality and Preference. We estimate the associations between ACEs and school readiness indicators using regression analysis while controlling for family income, neighbourhood deprivation at time of pregnancy, maternal education, child’s ethnicity, and maternal cohabiting status at birth. Our exploratory analysis finds that such protective factors are relatively rare with an overall prevalence rate of 1.6% (i.e., where interactions between the 372 mutable factors and the total number of ACEs have statistically significant effects on the seven indicators of school readiness). When we concentrate on one of the more concerning ACEs of physical abuse, this prevalence rate increases only slightly to 1.7% of all potential protective factors. The mutable factors with the largest absolute effects with respect to the total numbers of ACEs are found to involve Health Care Access related to the ability to see a general practitioner. The mutable factors with the largest absolute effects with respect to the physical abuse ACE involved Social Service Utilisation and Early Childcare Education Access. (Executive summary). Record #7099
610 _aCentre for Social Data Analytics, AUT University
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610 _aOranga Tamariki, Ministry for Children
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650 _aADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES
_94089
650 _aCHILD ABUSE
_9103
650 _aCHILD EXPOSURE TO VIOLENCE
_9130
650 _aCHILDREN OF PRISONERS
_92860
650 _aDATA ANALYSIS
_9181
650 _aDOMESTIC VIOLENCE
_9203
650 _aEDUCATION
_9218
650 _aGrowing Up in New Zealand study (GUiNZ)
_98305
650 _aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
_9431
650 _aLONGITUDINAL STUDIES
_9351
650 _aMENTAL HEALTH
_9377
650 _aPROTECTIVE FACTORS
_94270
650 _aSEPARATION
_9522
650 _aSUBSTANCE ABUSE
_9584
650 _aSTATISTICS
_9575
651 4 _aNEW ZEALAND
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700 _95617
_aMaloney, Tim
700 _94305
_aVaithianathan, Rhema
700 _aPereda, Perez, Paula
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856 _uhttps://csda.aut.ac.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/503313/ACES_FIN_1.pdf
856 _uhttps://www.orangatamariki.govt.nz/about-us/research/our-research/growing-up-in-new-zealand/
_yAccess the website
856 _uhttps://www.growingup.co.nz/research-projects
_zOther Growing Up in New Zealand research projects
942 _2ddc
_cREPORT