The Fathers' Support Center, in partnership with the Brown School Evaluation Center at Washington University in St. Louis, seeks to evaluate the impact of their New Pathways to Responsible Fatherhood Family Formation Program (NPFF). The investigators are most interested in quantifying the added benefit of parenting, father-child engagement, and father well-being curriculum compared to course content containing 80 hour economic stability material only. The impact evaluation will answer four key outcome and implementation specific questions using a mixed methods approach. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups (full program or 80 hour economic stability curriculum only) and tracked for the duration of the program. The impact evaluation tools include a set of validated instruments and will be administered to participants at baseline and again at three and twelve months after completion of the program. Performance measurement data will also be included in our analysis. Investigators hypothesize that participation in the full program will have a greater effect on key outcomes than the economic stability curriculum, a similar number of families will be reached by each condition, and that there will be minimal variability in retention rates across groups.
Age range
16 Years
Sex
MALE
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Father Engagement-Father Research & Practice Network (FRPN) Father Engagement Scale
Timeframe: 1 year from program completion
Father Child Contact-nForm Survey
Timeframe: 1 year from program completion
Child Behavior and Emotion-Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
Timeframe: 1 year from program completion
Parental Health-SF12v2 Health Survey
Timeframe: 1 year from program completion
Parental Substance Abuse-Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT)
Timeframe: 1 year from program completion
Parental Consequences related to Drug Abuse-Drug Abuse Screening Test 10 (DAST-10)
Timeframe: 1 year from program completion
Parental Discipline Strategies/Behavior-Conflict Tactics Scale-Parent Child (CTSPC)
Timeframe: 1 year from program completion
Co-parenting Relationships-FRPN: Coparenting Relationship Scale
Timeframe: 1 year after completion
Child/Financial Support Behavior-FSC Intake Survey
Timeframe: 1 year after program completion