Quality Improvement Center on Domestic Violence in Child Welfare

NCT ID: NCT04200703

Last Updated: 2019-12-16

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 2000 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2019-01-01
• Study Completion Date: 2021-09-29

Brief Summary

The Quality Improvement Center on Domestic Violence in Child Welfare (QIC-DVCW) is a five-year federal cooperative agreement with the Children's Bureau to test an approach to improve how child welfare agencies and their partners work collaboratively to help families experiencing domestic violence. The safety and well-being of child survivors of domestic violence and child maltreatment are closely connected to the safety and well-being of the adult survivor of domestic violence. For this reason, the QIC-DVCW is testing an Adult & Child Survivor-Centered Approach to addressing the needs of both the parent and child, which includes effectively engaging and working with the person causing them harm. The following four research questions were developed to guide the work of the Recipient's evaluation of the QIC-DVCW, and Provider's data will help to answer these questions:

1. Does a collaborative, adult and child survivor-centered approach-that includes safely engaging and establishing accountability of the DV offender-improve adult and child survivor safety, child permanence, and child and family well-being for child welfare involved families experiencing DV?

2. For which families and in which social contexts does an adult and child survivor-centered approach improve these outcomes?

3. What factors are associated with successful implementation and sustainability of an adult and child survivor-centered approach?

4. What are the costs associated with the implementation and maintenance of an adult and child survivor-centered approach, and how do these costs compare to the costs of "practice as usual"?

Conditions

Multiple Forms of Child Abuse; Domestic Violence

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Intervention

Implementation of the Adult and Survivor Centered Approach.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Adult and Child Survivor Centered Approach

Intervention Type: OTHER

Child welfare workers and supervisors, and community partners will be trained in the Adult and Child Survivor Centered Approach, and supervisors will receive ongoing coaching and training.

Comparison

No implementation of intervention.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Adult and Child Survivor Centered Approach

Child welfare workers and supervisors, and community partners will be trained in the Adult and Child Survivor Centered Approach, and supervisors will receive ongoing coaching and training.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Staff members of child welfare agencies and community partners, and the families experiencing domestic served in the intervention and comparison sites.

Staff members of child welfare agencies and community partners in the intervention and comparison sites.

Caseworkers (i.e., case carrying) in the intervention and comparison sites.

1. Newly investigated cases (i.e., cases that have been screened in for a response - investigation, alternate response - within the research period, in other words, not cases that have been open for DV for a while with no recent new reports)

2. Subject to investigation or alternative response

3. Active DV Cases (defined by type - partner violence and time -within the last year - of violence/cc

4. All survivors (inclusive of all gender identities)

5. Only if survivor whereabouts are known

6. Only families with at least one child that is or under 10 years old

7. Served by standard (i.e., not adolescent or youth units)

8. All relationships included (i.e., no type of relationship excluded)

4. Adult Survivor Survey

Exclusion Criteria

All non-staff members of child welfare agencies and community partners, and the families experiencing domestic served in the intervention and comparison sites.

2. Caseworker, Supervisor, Community Partner Self-Survey

All non-staff members of child welfare agencies and community partners in the intervention and comparison sites.

3. Caseworker Case Specific Survey

Anyone who is not a caseworker in the intervention and comparison sites.

5. People Who Use Violence web-based survey

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Futures Without Violence

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Kansas

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Juliana Carlson, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Kansas School of Social Welfare

Locations

Juliana Carlson

Lawrence, Kansas, United States

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

United States

Central Contacts

JULIANA CARLSON, PhD

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 7858649026

Email: jmcarlson@ku.edu

Facility Contacts

Juliana Carlson, PhD

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

UKansas

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id