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KEEP Connecting Kin

United States192 participantsStarted 2024-02-13

Plain-language summary

The current study provides a unique opportunity to conduct a summative evaluation of the KEEP Connecting Kin (KEEP-CK) program by leveraging extant relationships with Oregon's Child Welfare System (CWS), Self-Sufficiency Program (SSP), and our community partners to address the needs of informal kinship families and the youth in their care. Specifically, a randomized "services-as-usual" (SAU) waitlist control design plus qualitative methods will be used to evaluate the immediate (post-intervention) and sustained (10 month) impacts of the KEEP-CK program on child, adult, and service utilization outcomes, and prevention of entry into the CWS.

Who can participate

Age range4 Years – 18 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Informal kinship caregivers in Oregon are defined as relatives or fictive kin who are caring for children between the ages of 4 to 18 years outside of the child welfare system with no birth/step parent living in the home. Exclusion Criteria: * Informal kinship caregivers in Oregon who have previously participated in a KEEP or KEEP-CK group, or have a partner living in their home who has previously participated in a KEEP or KEEP-CK group. * Focal child is not between the ages of 4-18 years at the baseline assessment. * Focal child has been adopted by the kinship parent at the baseline assessment. * Focal child is not living with the kinship caregiver full time (e.g., babysitting/weekends/vacations) at the baseline assessment. * Focal child is in child welfare at the baseline assessment. * Focal child is living with the kinship caregiver in a certified foster home at the baseline assessment. * Focal child has a developmental disability or delay that impairs their ability to be responsive to the parenting content of KEEP-CK.

What they're measuring

Mean change in youth well-being (i.e., behavioral and emotional functioning, including child internalizing and externalizing behaviors)

Timeframe: Baseline, and 4- and 10-months post-baseline

Mean change in child permanency (i.e., placement stability and permanency of placements)

Timeframe: Baseline, and 4- and 10-months post-baseline

Mean change in parenting practices and parent/caregiver stress.

Timeframe: Baseline, and 4- and 10-months post-baseline

Mean change in parent/caregiver stress.

Timeframe: Baseline, and 4- and 10-months post-baseline

Mean change in parenting practices.

Timeframe: Baseline, and 4- and 10-months post-baseline

Mean change in parents' use of services from multiple systems (financial, educational, mental health, medical, legal)

Timeframe: Baseline, and 4- and 10-months post-baseline

Trial details

NCT IDNCT06294392

SponsorOregon Social Learning Center

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2026-06

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Plain-language summary

Who can participate

Age range4 Years – 18 Years

SexALL

See this in plain English?

AI-rewrites the medical criteria so a patient or caregiver can understand them. Always confirm with the trial site.

What they're measuring

Mean change in youth well-being (i.e., behavioral and emotional functioning, including child internalizing and externalizing behaviors)

Timeframe: Baseline, and 4- and 10-months post-baseline

Mean change in child permanency (i.e., placement stability and permanency of placements)

Timeframe: Baseline, and 4- and 10-months post-baseline

Mean change in parenting practices and parent/caregiver stress.

Timeframe: Baseline, and 4- and 10-months post-baseline

Mean change in parent/caregiver stress.

Timeframe: Baseline, and 4- and 10-months post-baseline

Mean change in parenting practices.

Timeframe: Baseline, and 4- and 10-months post-baseline

Mean change in parents' use of services from multiple systems (financial, educational, mental health, medical, legal)

Timeframe: Baseline, and 4- and 10-months post-baseline