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This article reports on the second phase of a three-year study funded by the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (grant #90-CA-1550), “Comparative Study of the Use and Effectiveness of Different Risk-Assessment Models in CPS Decision Making,” to determine the relative reliability and validity of three approaches to risk assessment in child protective services.