Quality Improvement Center on Domestic Violence in Child Welfare

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"?

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Domestic Violence; Multiple Forms of Child Abuse
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Adult and Child Survivor Centered Approach

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 2000
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: JULIANA CARLSON, PhD; Phone Number: 7858649026; Email: jmcarlson@ku.edu

Study Locations

• United States
  • Kansas
    • Lawrence, Kansas, United States, 66045
      • Recruiting
      • Juliana Carlson
      • Contact: Juliana Carlson, PhD; Phone Number: 785-864-9026; Email: jmcarlson@ku.edu

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

There are several aspects to study. Data collection strategies have distinct eligibility criteria. These are described below.

1. Overall Study

   Inclusion Criteria:

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

   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

   Inclusion Criteria:

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

   Exclusion Criteria:

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

3. Caseworker Case Specific Survey

Inclusion Criteria:

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

Exclusion Criteria:

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

Inclusion Criteria by case. The following criteria must be met to be included in case-specific survey:

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

Inclusion criteria: Adult survivors of domestic violence who are part of a case that met the criteria of case specific survey and a case specific survey has been completed on that case.

Exclusion criteria: Anyone who is not an adult survivor of domestic violence and/or are not part of a case that met the criteria of case specific survey and/or a case specific survey has not been completed on that case.

5. People Who Use Violence web-based survey

Inclusion criteria: People who use violence who are part of a case that met the criteria of case specific survey and a case specific survey has been completed on that case.

Exclusion criteria: People who do not use violence and/or who are not part of a case that met the criteria of case specific survey and/or a case specific survey has not been completed on that case.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention; Implementation of the Adult and Survivor Centered Approach.	Other: 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.
No Intervention: Comparison; No implementation of intervention.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change from baseline child safety at 6 months	Administrative data: maltreatment report, type of maltreatment	Baseline and six months later
Change from baseline child residence permanency at 6 months	Administrative data: residence stability measured by type of residence and time in care	Baseline and six months later
Change from baseline child education stability at 6 months	projected created items on surveys; caseworker survey and survey of parent (adult survivor) report of frequency of changes in educational setting, frequency of suspensions/expulsions	Baseline and six months later
Change from baseline child exposure to domestic violence at 6 months	projected created items on surveys; caseworker survey and survey of parent (adult survivor); report of exposure	Baseline and six months later
Change from baseline child social and emotional abilities at 6 months	projected created items on surveys; caseworker survey and survey of parent report of perception of social and emotional abilities	Through study completion, an average of 1 year
Change from baseline child emotional and social development at 6 months	projected created items on surveys; caseworker survey and survey of parent; report of perception of child's emotional and social development	Through study completion, an average of 1 year
Change from baseline child physical health at 6 months	projected created items on surveys; caseworker survey and survey of parent; report of perception of child's physical health	Baseline and six months later
Change from baseline child supportive relationships with specific individuals at 6 months	projected created items on surveys; caseworker survey and survey of parent; report of child's supportive relationships	Baseline and six months later
Change from baseline person who uses violence use of domestic violence/coercive control	projected created items on surveys; self-report of person using violence and adult survivor report of violence; frequency and type of violence used	One time point (retrospective pre and post) and Baseline and six months later
Change of person who uses violence understanding of the nature, and dynamics, and impact of DV on adult and child survivors	projected created items on surveys; self-report of person using violence and adult survivor report	One time point (retrospective pre and post) and Baseline and six months later
Change person who uses violence blaming adult survivor and justification for violence	projected created items on surveys; self-report of person using violence and adult survivor report	One time point (retrospective pre and post) and Baseline and six months later
Change person who uses violence understanding of healthy relationships	projected created items on surveys; self-report of person using violence and adult survivor report	One time point (retrospective pre and post) and Baseline and six months later
Change person who uses violence positive parent-child interactions	projected created items on surveys; self-report of person using violence and adult survivor report	One time point (retrospective pre and post) and Baseline and six months later
Change from baseline adult survivor safer and more stable conditions at 6 months	projected created items on surveys; self-report adult survivor report of violence - frequency and type of violence used, assessment of risk level of violence, employment and housing stability	Baseline and six months later
Change from baseline adult survivor social, cultural, and spiritual connections at 6 months	projected created items on survey, self-report by adult survivor	Baseline and six months later
Change from baseline adult survivor resilience and growth mindset at 6 months	projected created items on survey,, self-report by adult survivor	Through study completion, an average of 1 year
Change from baseline adult survivor nurturing parent-child interactions at 6 months	projected created items on survey, self-report by adult survivor	Baseline and six months later
Change from baseline adult survivor social and emotional abilities at 6 months	projected created items on survey, self-report by adult survivor	Baseline and six months later

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Kansas
• Collaborators: Futures Without Violence
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Juliana Carlson, PhD, University of Kansas School of Social Welfare

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 1, 2019
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): April 29, 2021
• Study Completion (Anticipated): September 29, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 25, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 12, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): December 16, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): December 16, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 12, 2019
• Last Verified: December 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: UKansas

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

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

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No