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Testing Relationship Skills Education Services With a Robust Economic Security Component

NCT02902003 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1758

Last updated 2022-04-22

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Summary

The Parenting Center (TPC) offers the Empowering Families program, which integrates a relationship education curriculum (Family Wellness) into a comprehensive set of services that includes case management, employment services, and financial coaching. The evaluation will test the effectiveness of offering relationship skills education services with a robust economic security component to low-income couples raising children.

Conditions

  • Family Relations

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Empowering Families

A program that integrates the healthy relationship curriculum, Family Wellness, into a comprehensive set of services that includes case management, employment services, and financial coaching. The program will have four core components: (1) 20 hours of core workshop sessions using the Family Wellness curriculum; (2) case management; (3) employment services; and (4) financial coaching. The core component of Empowering Families will be a 20-hour group workshop, organized into eight two-and-a-half-hour weekly sessions (Table 1). The main content of these sessions will be based on the Family Wellness relationship education curriculum which will be covered in six sessions. These six sessions will be led by two trained facilitators employed by The Parenting Center. The core workshops will be supplemented with two additional sessions on financial planning and employment topics that will designed to be useful to all participants, regardless of their level of financial and employment needs.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Robert Wood, PhD · Mathematica Policy Research

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-09-30
Primary Completion
2018-12-31
Completion
2021-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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