The Resilience Alliance
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1 country
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Brief Summary
The Resilience Alliance is a skill-based staff development intervention for child protective staff that focuses on improving job satisfaction, resilience, optimism and social support, while decreasing attrition, stress reactivity and burnout. The investigators believe that the intervention will enhance the capacity of child welfare workers to care for themselves, which will result in them providing better care for the children and families involved with the child welfare system. The Resiliance Alliance will be implemented in two child protective offices, Manhattan Zone C and Brooklyn Zone B. Staff from two additional offices (Staten Island Zone A and Brooklyn Zone C) will serve as a control group. A web-based survey will be administered in the group receiving the Resiliance Alliance intervention prior to intervention, at completion of the intervention, and 3 months post completion. The control group will be given a two-part training (3 hours in total) on secondary traumatic stress. The control group will then be asked to complete the same survey as the intervention group.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P75+ for not_applicable
Started Dec 2011
Shorter than P25 for not_applicable
4 active sites
Health score is calculated from publicly available data and should be used for screening purposes only.
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
Study Start
First participant enrolled
December 1, 2011
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
July 1, 2012
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
July 1, 2012
CompletedFirst Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
August 7, 2015
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
August 13, 2015
CompletedJune 23, 2016
June 1, 2016
7 months
August 7, 2015
June 21, 2016
Conditions
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
Change in Survey Over Time
The survey results will be compared between the two groups at three different timepoints as listed above
At baseline, upon conclusion of the intervention (6 months), and 3 months post-intervention
Study Arms (2)
Intervention Group
EXPERIMENTALControl Group
PLACEBO COMPARATORInterventions
The intervention is 6 months long \& is delivered through weekly sessions held in the participating child protective offices. The sessions follow a 4-week cycle with the participants changing each week of the cycle: (1) CPS alone, by units; (2) CPS/Supervisor units; (3) Child Protective Manager and CPS/Supervisor units; and (4) CPSs \& Supervisors/Managers separately. Participating staff are introduced to a resilience-related topic or skill, and receive a brief didactic training on that topic. Staff then engage in a group activity, which is designed to help them apply the new topic or skill to the workplace. Each module wraps up with a relaxation or exercise to help staff transition back into their work responsibilities; the facilitator can pick among the selection provided based on their sense of what would be helpful for the group. Staff are also given handouts and activities to do during the week.
These trainings will take place in two parts (for a total of 3 hours) and include an overview of secondary traumatic stress and its impact on child welfare staff, and some strategies staff can use to protect themselves from STS - essentially a "summary" version of what the intervention group will receive over the 24 weeks of the intervention. The investigators consider this training to represent "treatment as usual," as from our experience it is often how child welfare agencies address the issue of secondary traumatic stress among their staff.
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- Administration for Children's Services (ACS) employees working at one of four offices: Manhattan Zone C, Brooklyn Zone B, Staten Island Zone A and Brooklyn Zone C
- Adults aged 18 years or older
- English-speaking
You may not qualify if:
- None
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
Study Sites (4)
Brooklyn ACS Borough Office
Brooklyn, New York, 11216, United States
Manhattan ACS Borough Office
New York, New York, 10027, United States
Staten Island ACS Borough Office
Staten Island, New York, 10301, United States
Bronx ACS Borough Office
The Bronx, New York, 10468, United States
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Claude Chemtob
NYU MEDICAL CENTER
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- NON RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- NONE
- Purpose
- SUPPORTIVE CARE
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- SPONSOR
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
August 7, 2015
First Posted
August 13, 2015
Study Start
December 1, 2011
Primary Completion
July 1, 2012
Study Completion
July 1, 2012
Last Updated
June 23, 2016
Record last verified: 2016-06