Stepping Up 4 Your Child

NCT ID: NCT02843113

Last Updated: 2021-07-28

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 1266 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2016-07-01
• Study Completion Date: 2020-12-30

Brief Summary

Through Stepping Up 4 Your Child, non-custodial fathers will be provided with a comprehensive, solution-oriented program featuring group based parent education and individualized case management to help them achieve financial independence, increase their parenting skills, and develop a co-parenting alliance.

Detailed Description

Fathers' involvement in their children's lives has received increased attention in recent years. In response, support has grown for responsible fatherhood programs aimed at improving the quantity and quality of fathers' involvement. Research on these programs has concluded that factors such as fathers' parenting skills, co-parenting relationship quality, and socioeconomic status all impact fathers' ability to contribute to their children's growth and development. Using this previous research as a foundation, the Stepping Up 4 Your Child project will go beyond traditional fatherhood initiatives by integrating the provision of responsible parenting, economic stability, and relationship education services to fathers at risk for paternal disengagement. To do so, the University of Louisville's Kent School of Social Work will leverage its existing relationship with the Kentucky Office of Child Support Enforcement. Specifically, through Stepping Up 4 Your Child, non-custodial fathers will be provided with a comprehensive, solution-oriented program featuring group based parent education and individualized case management to help them achieve financial independence, increase their parenting skills, and develop a co-parenting alliance. Given that each of these focus areas have all been cited as three of the strongest predictors of paternal engagement, Stepping Up 4 Your Child and the results of its evaluation will have significant implications for the families it serves, as well as the practitioners, researchers, and policymakers interested in responsible fatherhood. 1

Conditions

Parenting Education Curriculum; Parenting Education Curriculum + Case Management; Waiting List Control

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

4 Your Child Program

Program integrates the provision of responsible parenting, economic stability, and relationship education services to fathers at risk for paternal disengagement.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

4 Your Child Program

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Integrates the provision of responsible parenting, economic stability, and relationship education services to fathers at risk for paternal disengagement.

4 Your Child + Case Management

Participants assigned to treatment group that includes case management will receive an initial assessment to determine their strengths and needs. The participant will then work collaboratively with their case manager to connect to community resources to meet his needs. To do so, the case manager will meet with the participant using the following schedule: Months 1-2: intervention in the form of weekly face-to-face meeting with a case manager, plus a weekly phone call from a case manager; Months 3-4: intervention in the form of face-to-face meeting every other week, plus a weekly phone call; Months 5-6: intervention in the form of face-to-face meeting once a month, plus a weekly phone call.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

4 Your Child Program

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Integrates the provision of responsible parenting, economic stability, and relationship education services to fathers at risk for paternal disengagement.

Waiting list control

Individuals who are randomly assigned to this condition will receive no treatment for a period of months in parallel with the experimental intervention conditions. Data will be gathered from them, and they will be randomly assigned to a treatment condition when possible.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

4 Your Child Program

Integrates the provision of responsible parenting, economic stability, and relationship education services to fathers at risk for paternal disengagement.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• non-custodial father AND
• age 16-24 OR
• age 24 up + low income OR
• age 24 up + child support payment delinquent

Exclusion Criteria

• female
• custodial father
• male but not a father
• younger than age 16

• Minimum Eligible Age: 16 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 105 Years
• Eligible Sex: MALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Kentucky Cabinet for Health & Family Services

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Louisville

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Armon R. Perry

Associate Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Elizabethtown, Kentucky, United States

University of Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Owensboro, Kentucky, United States

Owenton, Kentucky, United States

Paducah, Kentucky, United States

Sandy Hook, Kentucky, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

15.1258

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id