Housing services for child welfare families: Impact on stability and well-being.

儿童福利家庭的住房服务：对稳定和福祉的影响。

• 批准号: 8602654
• 负责人: Patrick J Fowler
• 金额: $ 31.02万
• 依托单位: WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-04-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8602654
• 关键词: Housing; services; child; welfare; families; Housing; services; child; welfare; families

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a housing intervention for inadequately housed families under investigation by the child welfare system, as well as to understand the mechanisms and conditions through which the program most benefits child development. The intervention - the Family Unification Program (FUP) - is a Housing and Urban Development (HUD) initiative that provides Housing Choice Vouchers (Section 8) to families whose inadequate housing risks out-of-home placement. The study proposes to take advantage of a natural experiment that randomly provides FUP services to families (n = 100) who will be compared to a child welfare services-as-usual control group (n = 100). Oversampling will occur in both conditions to account for voucher uptake failure and attrition. The study will obtain two baseline assessments before housing services and then re-assess at 6-, 12-, and 24-months post-baseline for a total of five time points. Caregivers and their children will be administered a panel survey. The study will test a number of hypotheses: 1) it is hypothesized that families receiving housing services will report greater family stability - as indicated by residential stability, housing quality, daily routines, noise and confusion, caregiver mental health, caregiver separations, and school changes - compared to child welfare services-as-usual; 2) it is predicated that the housing intervention will have a significant positive impact on child physical and mental health, academic achievement, and developmentally adaptive behavior, relative to services-as-usual; 3) we hypothesize that positive effects on child development associated with housing services will function through reductions in family stability; 4) we hypothesize that families from less cohesive and more violent neighborhoods will gain less from the intervention; 5) we hypothesize that the housing intervention will have its greatest impact on families who are most unstable at baseline; 6) it is theorized that the housing intervention will have greater positive effects for younger children. The rigorous design enables strong scientific investigation of how FUP functions and whether intervention operates similarly across multiple levels of context. This project intends to improve understanding of the mechanisms of the FUP intervention to provide a stronger basis to build evidence-based service models and public policy. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This study takes advantage of a natural experiment to test the effectiveness of an intervention for inadequately housed families under investigation for child maltreatment. The proposed study simultaneously aims to inform social policy and service provision in the child welfare system, while investigating the processes involved in the relationship between family instability and adverse child development among at-risk families.

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究旨在评估儿童福利系统调查的住房干预措施不充分的家庭的有效性，并了解该计划最大的机制和条件受益于儿童发展的机制和条件。干预措施 - 家庭统一计划（FUP） - 是一项住房和城市发展（HUD）倡议，为住房选择券（第8节）提供给住房不足的家庭的家庭。该研究建议利用一个自然实验，该实验随机为家庭提供FUP服务（n = 100），他们将被与儿童福利服务 - 与常态的对照组进行比较（n = 100）。在这两种情况下，都会发生过采样，以说明代金券的吸收故障和损耗。这项研究将在住房服务之前获得两项基线评估，然后在基线后6，12和24个月重新评估，总计五个时间点。护理人员及其子女将进行小组调查。该研究将检验许多假设：1）假设接受住房服务的家庭将报告更大的家庭稳定性 - 如住宅稳定性，住房质量，日常习惯，噪音和混乱，照顾者的心理健康，照料者的分离和学校变化所表明的，与儿童福利服务-as -as -as -as -as -usual相比； 2）相对于服务与惯常服务，住房干预将对儿童的身心健康，学术成就以及发育适应性行为产生重大积极影响； 3）我们假设对与住房服务相关的儿童发展的积极影响将通过降低家庭稳定来起作用； 4）我们假设来自凝聚力较小和暴力社区的家庭将从干预措施中获得较少的收益； 5）我们假设住房干预将对基线最不稳定的家庭产生最大的影响； 6）理论上，住房干预对年幼的儿童会产生更大的积极影响。严格的设计可以对燃料的运作方式以及干预措施在多个层面的上下文中的运作类似。该项目旨在提高对FUP干预机制的理解，以提供更强大的基础来建立循证服务模型和公共政策。 公共卫生相关性：本研究利用自然实验来测试对未充分调查的家庭虐待儿童的干预措施的有效性。拟议的研究同时旨在为儿童福利制度中的社会政策和服务提供提供信息，同时调查了处于危险家庭中家庭不稳定与不良儿童发展之间关系的过程。