protocolSection identificationModule nctId: NCT06294392, orgStudyIdInfo id: 90FA3010, briefTitle: KEEP Connecting Kin, acronym: KEEP-CK, statusModule overallStatus: RECRUITING, startDateStruct date: 2024-02-13, primaryCompletionDateStruct date: 2026-04, completionDateStruct date: 2026-04, studyFirstPostDateStruct date: 2024-03-05, lastUpdatePostDateStruct date: 2024-03-05, sponsorCollaboratorsModule leadSponsor name: Oregon Social Learning Center, class: OTHER, collaborators name: Office of Planning, Research & Evaluation, descriptionModule briefSummary: The current study provides a unique opportunity to conduct a summative evaluation of the KEEP Connecting Kin (KEEP-CK) program by leveraging extant relationships with Oregon's Child Welfare System (CWS), Self-Sufficiency Program (SSP), and our community partners to address the needs of informal kinship families and the youth in their care. Specifically, a randomized "services-as-usual" (SAU) waitlist control design plus qualitative methods will be used to evaluate the immediate (post-intervention) and sustained (10 month) impacts of the KEEP-CK program on child, adult, and service utilization outcomes, and prevention of entry into the CWS., conditionsModule conditions: Internalizing Behavior, conditions: Externalizing Behavior, conditions: Child Permanency, conditions: Parenting, conditions: Parent Stress, conditions: Service Utilization, designModule studyType: INTERVENTIONAL, phases: NA, designInfo allocation: RANDOMIZED, interventionModel: PARALLEL, interventionModelDescription: Informal kinship caregivers will be randomly assigned to receive the KEEP-CK program either immediately or after waiting 10 months using a randomized blocked design. Blocking factors include: (a) the length of time that the child has been living in informal kinship care (\<=6 months, 7 months to \<2 years, or \>=2 years); (b) child age (4 to 12 years, or 13+ years); and (c) low (or not low) resource families, defined by an annual household income below (or above) 150% of the federal poverty level., primaryPurpose: PREVENTION, maskingInfo masking: NONE, enrollmentInfo count: 192, type: ESTIMATED, armsInterventionsModule interventions name: KEEP-CK, outcomesModule primaryOutcomes measure: Mean change in youth well-being (i.e., behavioral and emotional functioning, including child internalizing and externalizing behaviors), primaryOutcomes measure: Mean change in child permanency (i.e., placement stability and permanency of placements), primaryOutcomes measure: Mean change in parenting practices and parent/caregiver stress., primaryOutcomes measure: Mean change in parent/caregiver stress., primaryOutcomes measure: Mean change in parenting practices., primaryOutcomes measure: Mean change in parents' use of services from multiple systems (financial, educational, mental health, medical, legal), eligibilityModule sex: ALL, minimumAge: 4 Years, maximumAge: 18 Years, stdAges: CHILD, stdAges: ADULT, contactsLocationsModule locations facility: Oregon Center Learning Center, status: RECRUITING, city: Eugene, state: Oregon, zip: 97401, country: United States, contacts name: Courtenay Padgett, role: CONTACT, phone: 541-485-2711, email: CourtP@oslc.org, geoPoint lat: 44.05207, lon: -123.08675, documentSection largeDocumentModule largeDocs typeAbbrev: SAP, hasProtocol: False, hasSap: True, hasIcf: False, label: Statistical Analysis Plan, date: 2023-07-11, uploadDate: 2024-02-27T15:36, filename: SAP_000.pdf, size: 239212, hasResults: False