Enhancing Permanency in Children and Families

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

117 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-10-01

Study Completion Date

2023-09-30

Brief Summary

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The Enhancing Permanency in Children and Families (EPIC) program is a collaborative effort between the Ohio State University College of Social Work, two county offices of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, two juvenile courts and local behavioral health agencies. The goal of EPIC is to use three evidence-based and evidence-informed practices to reduce abusive and neglectful parenting, reduce addiction severity in parents, and improve permanency outcomes for families involved with the child welfare system due to substance abuse.

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Detailed Description

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Funded by the federal Regional Partnership Grant (RPG) Program, the Enhancing Permanency in Children and Families (EPIC) is a partnership between child welfare, juvenile count and behavioral health to holistically address substance misuse and associated parenting needs of child welfare-involved families. The overall goals and objectives of the intervention are to 1) Increase timely access to services among substances abusing parents involved in the child welfare system in Fairfield and Pickaway counties, 2.Enhance child safety and improve permanency and 3. increase child, parent, and caregiver well-being.

Eligible participants are matched with peer recovery supporters who mentor parents through the process. Parents are also referred to Family Treatment Drug Court (FTDC) with the option to receive Medications for Opioid Use Disorders (MOUD), and lastly when children are placed at home with parents or with kinship caregivers, relational skill building services that include financial assistance for child care, respite and transportation services. EPIC participants receive substance abuse and behavioral health treatment services through local providers including from two partner agencies: Integrated Services for Behavioral Health and Ohio Guidestone.

Data collection: Participating parents complete a pretest at baseline and up to 5 post-tests at 6 month intervals. Parents complete questions related to themselves (e.g. Addiction Severity Index, CES-D) and for one focal child (e.g. CBCL).

To evaluate EPIC, a quasi-experimental design will be employed through a two-stage sampling procedure. This design provides the ability to assess (1) the effects of EPIC on access to services for the families in the two intervention counties, and (2) the independent effects of additional services provided under EPIC that may be over and above Ohio START (an intervention administered through the Public Children Services Association of Ohio) and treatment as usual (TAU). In the first stage, two comparison counties will be identified for each of the two intervention counties. One comparison county will be part of the Ohio START program while the second will be a county that has no major interventions to address substance use among child welfare families. Counties are matched based on child population size, rate of child protective services referrals, percent of naloxone administrations per adult population, percent white, percent poverty, child welfare tax levy, and to the extent possible, behavioral health service availability. During the second stage, EPIC families are matched with substance using families in each of the comparison counties.

Parents may consent to one or all three components of EPIC based on the specific needs of each family, however all parents receive intensive case management services, including frequent home visits from caseworkers and peer recovery supporters.

Conditions

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Substance Abuse Substance Use Child Abuse Neglect, Child

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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EPIC Participants

EPIC participants are 1) matched with trained peer recovery supporters with lived experience related to child welfare and substance EPIC participants are also incentivized to participate in 2) family treatment drug court (FTDC), with medications for opioid use disorders (MOUD); and 3) home-based parenting supports based on the Nurturing Parenting Program.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Peer Recovery Support

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Weekly visits with peer who has lived experience related to child welfare and addiction

Family Treatment Drug Court with Medications for Opioid Use Disorders (MOUD)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Incentivized to participate in Family Treatment Drug Court with option for Medications for Opioid Use Disorders (MOUD)

Relational Skill Building based on the Nurturing Parenting Program (NPP)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Home-based parenting support

Ohio Sobriety Treatment And Reducing Trauma (START) participants

Adapted from the evidence-based national START model (Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams) this intervention matches child welfare parents in need of addiction services to caseworker and family peer mentor (FPM) dyads for intensive case management services.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Peer Recovery Support

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Weekly visits with peer who has lived experience related to child welfare and addiction

Treatment as usual (TAU)

Treatment as usual includes home visits by the assigned caseworker, referrals to SUD assessment/treatment, family group decision making, and (non-incentivized) referral to FTDC.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Peer Recovery Support

Weekly visits with peer who has lived experience related to child welfare and addiction

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Family Treatment Drug Court with Medications for Opioid Use Disorders (MOUD)

Incentivized to participate in Family Treatment Drug Court with option for Medications for Opioid Use Disorders (MOUD)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Relational Skill Building based on the Nurturing Parenting Program (NPP)

Home-based parenting support

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Child welfare involvement
* Substance use is primary reason for child welfare involvement (a score or 3 or more on UNCOPE assessment or a positive drug screen)