Ignite Study of the Jewish Family and Children's Service of the Suncoast, Inc.

NCT05356234 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: 20220421
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 675
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The goals of the program are to help struggling fathers and father figures improve the parent-child relationship, sustain healthy marriages and relationships (and help those who are single identify ways to enter into safe and supportive relationships that may ultimately lead to marriage), and identify and support fathers in their economic stability and employment objectives. These outcomes will be achieved through a series of workshops addressing responsible parenting and marriage and relationships as well as a complement of employment services and comprehensive case management. Additional services needed by participants will be identified and provided either through wraparound programming provided by JFCS or through collaborative agreements with local partner agencies. Additionally, Ignite will incorporate a comprehensive employment program combining both job and career advancement.

Conditions

Intervention; Wait-List Control

Keywords

Healthy parent and child relationships; Economic self-sufficiency

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (4)

• Family Environment Survey (FES)

  The FES was developed to measure social and environmental characteristics of families. Face and content validity are supported by clear statements about family situations that relate to subscale domains, and the measure can differentiate between distressed and normal family samples.

  24 weeks

• Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS)

  The RDAS is a 32-item self-report standardized measure with 4 subscales: (1) Dyadic Consensus, (2) Dyadic Satisfaction, (3) Affectional Expression, and (4) Dyadic Cohesion as well as a total score.

  24 weeks

• Perceived Employment Barriers Scale (PEBS)

  The PEBS is a 20-item scale developed to measure barriers to employment including the following subscales: (1) Physical and mental health, (2) Labor market exclusion, (3) Child care, (4) Human capital, and (5) Soft skills. The measure is a Likert-type scale ranging from 1 to 5 where 1 indicates 'not a barrier' and 5 indicates 'strong barrier'.

  24 weeks

• Employment Hope Scale (EHS)

  The EHS is a 14-item scale developed to measure psychological self-sufficiency with two subscales: (1) psychological empowerment, and (2) goal-oriented pathways. This is a Likert-type scale ranging from 0 to 10 where 0 indicates 'strongly disagree' and 10 indicates 'strongly agree'.

  24 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Treatment Intervention: Responsible Parenting, Relationships, and Employment Services

EXPERIMENTAL

Experimental: A series of workshops addressing responsible parenting and marriage and relationships as well as a complement of employment services and comprehensive case management will be conducted over a 12-week period.

Behavioral: Treatment Intervention: Responsible Parenting, Relationships, and Employment Services

Wait-List Control

NO INTERVENTION

The Wait-List Control group will be placed on a wait-list and offered services as soon as they complete the study's final 24-week follow-up measures. Wait-List Control participants will not be assigned a Case Manager and will not receive any comparable services from our agency until they complete their 24-week measures.

Interventions

Treatment Intervention: Responsible Parenting, Relationships, and Employment Services BEHAVIORAL

The Intervention group will be assigned a Case Manager and placed in the next available On My Shoulders (OMS) curriculum that offers strategies to help individuals develop a strong and healthy self in the service of making current and/or future relationships of all forms (parent-child, romantic, family, work) successful and satisfying. This curriculum is intended to equip men (and, where applicable, women) with the skills they need to build and nurture healthy relationships. This curriculum should help participants improve family functioning. Additionally, Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) financial literacy curriculum will be utilized to help participants increase job retention for those currently employed, improve wages through additional educational and training opportunities, and learn skills to better manage family finances. This curriculum should help participants increase economic stability and mobility.

Treatment Intervention: Responsible Parenting, Relationships, and Employment Services

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Adults age 18 or older
• Have a child or children under the age of 24
• Interested in improving the parent-child relationship, sustain healthy marriages and relationships, and economic stability and employment objectives
• Resides in Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties on the Gulf Coast of Florida

You may not qualify if:

• Under age 18
• Does not reside in Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties on the Gulf Coast of Florida

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast, Inc.: lead

Study Sites (1)

Jewish Family and Children Service of the Suncoast, Inc.

Sarasota, Florida, 34237, United States

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Association

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Psychotherapeutic Processes; Psychotherapy; Behavioral Disciplines and Activities

Study Officials

• Katelyn Kopakin, MA

  Jewish Family Children's Services of the Suncoast, Inc.

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Central Study Contacts

Andrew Truman, BS

CONTACT

941-256-4130; jtruman@jfcs-cares.org

Kathleen Moore, PhD

CONTACT

813-394-4900; kamoore@usf.edu

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: The outside evaluators will remain blind to each condition throughout the study.
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: The Intervention group will start with assigning a Case Manager and conducting a series of workshops addressing responsible parenting and marriage and relationships as well as a complement of employment services and comprehensive case management.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 22, 2022
• First Posted: May 2, 2022
• Study Start: April 1, 2022
• Primary Completion: June 1, 2025
• Study Completion: June 1, 2025
• Last Updated: February 27, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-02

Locations

US (1)