Quality Improvement Center on Domestic Violence in Child Welfare

NCT04200703 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: UKansas
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 2,000
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

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. 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. 2.For which families and in which social contexts does an adult and child survivor-centered approach improve these outcomes?
3. 3.What factors are associated with successful implementation and sustainability of an adult and child survivor-centered approach?
4. 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"?

Conditions

Multiple Forms of Child Abuse; Domestic Violence

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (18)

• 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

Study Arms (2)

Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Implementation of the Adult and Survivor Centered Approach.

Other: Adult and Child Survivor Centered Approach

Comparison

NO INTERVENTION

No implementation of intervention.

Interventions

Adult and Child Survivor Centered Approach OTHER

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.

Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

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

You may not qualify if:

• All non-staff members of child welfare agencies and community partners, and the families experiencing domestic served in the intervention and comparison sites.
• Caseworker, Supervisor, Community Partner Self-Survey
• Staff members of child welfare agencies and community partners in the intervention and comparison sites.
• All non-staff members of child welfare agencies and community partners in the intervention and comparison sites.
• Caseworker Case Specific Survey
• Caseworkers (i.e., case carrying) in the intervention and comparison sites.
• Anyone who is not a caseworker in the intervention and comparison sites.
• 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)
• Subject to investigation or alternative response
• Active DV Cases (defined by type - partner violence and time -within the last year - of violence/cc
• All survivors (inclusive of all gender identities)
• Only if survivor whereabouts are known
• Only families with at least one child that is or under 10 years old
• Served by standard (i.e., not adolescent or youth units)
• All relationships included (i.e., no type of relationship excluded)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Kansas: lead
• Futures Without Violence: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Juliana Carlson

Lawrence, Kansas, 66045, United States

RECRUITING

Study Officials

• Juliana Carlson, PhD

  University of Kansas School of Social Welfare

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

JULIANA CARLSON, PhD

CONTACT

7858649026; jmcarlson@ku.edu

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 25, 2019
• First Posted: December 16, 2019
• Study Start: January 1, 2019
• Primary Completion: April 29, 2021
• Study Completion: September 29, 2021
• Last Updated: December 16, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-12

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)