The main research questions are: does providing substantial, unconditional cash transfers plus access to voluntary peer support services over 24 months a) reduce the length of time in shelter for families with young children and/or b) improve other aspects of family and child well-being relative to providing nominal cash transfers alone or usual care. conditions: Time to Shelter Exit conditions: Family Well-being conditions: Child Well-being studyType: INTERVENTIONAL phases: NA allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED interventionModel: PARALLEL interventionModelDescription: Parallel assignment to 1) active treatment and 2) active comparison. A third, passive comparison group will be constructed and followed anonymously via administrative records. primaryPurpose: TREATMENT masking: TRIPLE maskingDescription: Participants will be blind to condition at the baseline assessment but will be unmasked immediately afterwards (they will receive debit cards and learn whether they are eligible for peer support). At baseline, interviewers will likely be aware of study conditions because they will interview respondents at shelters and shelter is associated with condition. At subsequent assessments interviewers will remain blind to study condition to the extent possible, but may well learn the condition from respondents, especially those who complete qualitative interviews. Win staff who provide usual care to both groups will be blind to the study condition. Participants in the passive comparison group will be unaware of the study. whoMasked: PARTICIPANT whoMasked: CARE_PROVIDER whoMasked: OUTCOMES_ASSESSOR count: 200 type: ESTIMATED name: Large unconditional cash transfers plus voluntary peer support. name: Nominal cash transfers name: Passive comparison group measure: Time to shelter exit measure: Housing: Total time in shelter* measure: Housing: Housing Stability measure: Target Child Development: Child Behavior Problems* measure: Target Child Development: Child Prosocial Behavior* measure: Target Child Development: Child Verbal Development measure: Parenting: Chaos in the Home* measure: Parenting: Early Learning Activities with Target Child* measure: Parenting: Target-Child-Focused Expenditure Index measure: Parenting: Household Routines measure: Parenting: Parenting Stress measure: Family Separation: Separation of Parent and Target Child (Cumulative at any time point)* measure: Family Separation: Indicated Investigations, Preventive services, or Child Placement of Target Child by Child Protective Services (No/Yes) measure: Adult Well-Being: Adult Psychological Distress* measure: Adult Well-Being: Adult Alcohol or Drug Abuse measure: Adult Well-Being: Hope measure: Domestic Violence: Adult Domestic Violence* measure: Financial Well-Being: Food Insecurity* measure: Financial Well-Being: Adult Economic Stress measure: Financial Well-Being: Financial Well-Being as Measured by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Financial Well-Being Scale measure: Financial Well-Being: Financial Hardship as Measured by the Urban Institute Well-Being and Basic Needs Survey measure: Employment: Income from Employment in Most Recent Period* measure: Employment: Adult Work for Pay measure: Health Care: Family Use of Emergency Medical Care or Hospitalization (Cumulative at any point)* measure: Health Care: Proportion of Target Child Immunizations Recommended by Age by the American Academy of Pediatrics measure: Health Care: Proportion of Well-Child Visits by Target Child Recommended by Age by the American Academy of Pediatrics sex: ALL minimumAge: 18 Years stdAges: ADULT stdAges: OLDER_ADULT facility: Win NYC Shelter System city: New York state: New York zip: 10004 country: United States name: Kirsten Cafarella, B.A. role: CONTACT phone: 646-899-6943 email: kcafarella@winnyc.org name: Marybeth Shinn, Ph.D. role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR lat: 40.71427 lon: -74.00597 hasResults: False