The study is a field trial comparing the SafeCare family preservation model to a comparable usual care model for parents in child welfare. The study also compares two levels of service quality control.
The study is a cluster-randomized field trial of the SafeCare(SC) home-based family preservation model for families in the child welfare system. The trial is conducted in collaboration with the state child welfare agency and their contracted in-home service system. The service system is regionalized and provides in home services to families referred by child welfare. Regions of the state are assigned by the study to either the SC model or to services as usual. Provider teams, nested within regions, are assigned to either a monitored or unmonitored model implementation quality control condition. The aims of the project are to test client level child welfare reentry outcomes between SC and standard conditions, across the two implementation and quality control conditions.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
2,175
Behavioral home based family preservation. Weekly visits X six months.
Live observation of practice with expert coaching, feedback and fidelity monitoring
Home based services not using the SafeCare model
Eastern Oklahoma Youth Services
McAlester, Oklahoma, United States
NorthCare
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Family and Children's Services
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Child welfare system recidivism
Follow-up for recidivism reports to child welfare, captured from administrative data maintained by the state child welfare system
Time frame: Up to 2766 days
Child Abuse Potential Inventory
This is a questionnaire survey measuring parenting distress, parenting attitudes, and risk for committing child abuse
Time frame: Approximately 180 days and 365 days
Family Resources Scale
This is a questionnaire survey measuring sufficiency of basic concrete resources in a family, such as adequate food, shelter, utilities, clothing, access to health care, etc.
Time frame: Approximately 180 and 365 days
Beck Depression Inventory
This is a questionnaire measuring symptoms of depression
Time frame: Approximately 180 and 365 days
Social Provisions Scale
This is a questionnaire measuring the degree of social support and quality of social relationships
Time frame: Approximately 180 and 356 days
Diagnostic Interview Schedule--Drug and Alcohol Disorders Module
This is a structured diagnostic psychiatric interview, adapted to questionnaire format, measuring symptoms of alcohol disorders and drug disorders, with associated DSM based diagnostic algorithms.
Time frame: Approximately 180 and 365 days
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No in vivo coached quality control or fidelity monitoring