Clinical trial NCT02152618: Kansas Intensive Permanency Project
Official title: Permanency Innovations Initiative- Kansas Intensive Permanency Project
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Serious Emotional Disturbance
In Foster Care
Keywords: Serious emotional disturbance
foster care
child protective services
Lead sponsor: Westat
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Children's Bureau ACYF
name: Office of Planning, Research & Evaluation
name: University of Kansas School of Social Welfare
First posted: 2014-06-02
Enrollment: 1652
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 3
Maximum age (years): 16
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The intervention provides services to children with Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED) who are in foster care and to their parent(s) to prepare the families for reunification.

Detailed description: The intervention provide services to children with Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED) who are in foster care and to their birth parents to prepare the families for reunification. The evaluation follows a randomized design. The pretest will assess the procedures and instruments for collecting data on child, youth, and family functioning. Ultimately, after the pretest is complete, the data collected through the evaluation will provide information on the extent to which the intervention achieved its goal of improving parenting skills and enhancing readiness for reunification among the families who received the services.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Children age 3-16 with severe emotional disturbances
* In foster care and their families (parents).

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Primary outcomes:
measure: Time to stable permanence
timeFrame: Measured from the date of random assignment to the discharge date or to the end of the study period for cases that did not discharge
measure: Positive parenting behaviors
timeFrame: Pre intervention, post intervention and at 12-months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Use of community resources & social supports
timeFrame: Pre intervention, post intervention and at 12-months
measure: Readiness for Reunification
timeFrame: Pre intervention, post intervention and at 12-months
measure: Improve parent mental health & Substance Abuse
timeFrame: Pre intervention, post intervention and at 12-months
measure: Child behavior
timeFrame: Intake & every 6-months post intake
measure: Child functioning
timeFrame: Intake & every 6-months post intake
measure: Reunification
timeFrame: 18 months post intervention start date
measure: Long-term foster care
timeFrame: Measured at 6 and 12 months post entry into foster care
measure: Stable permanency
timeFrame: Measured at 6 and 12 months post entry into foster care
measure: Child safety
timeFrame: Measured at 6 and 12 months post entry into foster care
measure: Coercive parenting practices
timeFrame: Pre intervention, post intervention and at 12-months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: University of North Carolina
name: Mark Testa, PhD.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Westat
name: Andrea Sedlak, PhD.
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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