RCT of the Jewish Family & Children's Services (JFCS) HFHC Program (JFCS:HFHC)

Randomized Controlled Trial of the Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast, Inc.'s Healthy Families/Healthy Children Program

Every program element was designed to ensure that all children in the areas served will live in stable, happy, healthy family situations. The JFCS Healthy Families/Healthy Children program will provide relationship skill enhancement interventions. All program participants in the intervention group will have acces to: parenting skill enhancement interventions, employment readiness and/or situation enhancement, as well as financial knowledge and/or situation enhancement.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Family Relations
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Relationship Skill Enhancement

Detailed Description

The goal of the Healthy Families/Healthy Children (HFHC) program is to ensure that all children in The Region live in stable, happy, healthy family situations. HFHC will be able to deliver existing services that have proven effective and new services that are research-based. Need to be addressed: Unhealthy relationships, inadequate parental skills and attitudes related to nurturing and responsible parenting, lack of knowledge of finances and/or economic self sufficiency, underdeveloped employment readiness skills, difficult-to-access job opportunities and housing. Proposed Services: In conjunction with a wide-range of community partners operating a comprehensive system of care, JFCS will provide a public advertising campaign, Marriage and Relationship Education/Skills (MRES), Nurturing Parenting education, financial management education and services, and job career advancement services. HFHC is designed around a strong marriage and relationship education/skills (MRES) component. The program includes parenting skills classes, a robust effort to address participation barriers, and partnership with local employment and employment skill-building agencies to address the economic stability needs of participants. Case management and support service coordination ensure comprehensive service delivery for every participant. Participants will have meaningful improvements in marriage/relationship skills, improved parenting/co-parenting skills, improved family functioning,improved adult and child well-being, and increased economic stability/reduced poverty. Population groups to be served: Low-income individuals, couples, engaged couples, and married couples 18 years of age up to 64 years of age and their family members.Research component: The project will conduct a randomized controlled trial to test hypotheses regarding our program's effectiveness. The Control group will be on a wait list and will not receive the Intervention (i.e., program services) until their final post-test measures are completed.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 786
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Florida
    • Sarasota, Florida, United States, 34237
      • Recruiting
      • JFCS
      • Contact: Rhonda Blumenthal, MS; Phone Number: 145 941-366-2224
      • Contact: Tommy Muecke, MSW, MBA; Phone Number: 104 941-366-2224

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 64 years (ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Residents of Sarasota and Manatee Counties

Exclusion Criteria:

• No minors
• No one over 64 years of age

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: OTHER
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Interventional Model: PARALLEL
• Masking: SINGLE

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
NO_INTERVENTION: Wait List Control Group; No interventions given, this is a wait list control group.
EXPERIMENTAL: Intervention Group; Receive relationship skill enhancement classes with access to parenting, employment services, and financial services.	Behavioral: Relationship Skill Enhancement; Receive relationship classes with access to parenting, employment services, and financial services.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
The Family Environment Scale	26 Weeks
Dyadic Adjustment Scale	26 Weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast, Inc.
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Matthew Young, PhD, Jewish Family & Children's Services

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): July 1, 2016
• Primary Completion (ANTICIPATED): June 1, 2020
• Study Completion (ANTICIPATED): September 1, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 28, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 2, 2016
• First Posted (ESTIMATE): August 3, 2016

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): August 18, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 15, 2017
• Last Verified: August 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 2016/06/35; 90FM0070 (OTHER_GRANT: HHS, ACF, Office of Family Assistance)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO