A Regional Partnership to Improve Outcomes Through Fatherhood Engagement

Montefiore Medicine Academic Health System

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Substance Use; Child Neglect; Fathers; Child Abuse; Father-Child Relations

Treatments: Behavioral: Case Management; Behavioral: HERO Dads Fatherhood Program; Behavioral: Contingency Management; Behavioral: Motivational Enhancement

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05562557

90-CU-0116 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

2022-14401

Details and patient eligibility

About

Montefiore will engage fathers in families at risk of substance misuse in the Bronx and neighboring communities. Families will be referred from Bronx and neighboring community-based child welfare systems, substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers, and medical providers if identified at risk of substance use concerns and will be randomly assigned to receive services as usual as part of the comparison group, or to receive enhanced services as part of the program group.

Enhanced services include: (1) Motivational Enhancement; (2) referral to Healthy, Empowered, Resilient, and Open (HERO) Dads fatherhood engagement program; (3) Contingency Management; and (4) Case Management.

Enrollment: 240 estimated patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• is a custodial or non-custodial father
• speaks English or Spanish
• has at least one child under the age of 18,
• someone in the family is identified as at-risk for substance use through: self-report of illicit substance use in the family, the presence of an SUD diagnosis in the family, a clinician/provider identified substance use risk, or the presence of a substance-related indicated child welfare allegation in the family

Exclusion criteria

• The placement of all children in the family in foster care

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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240 participants in 2 patient groups

Services as Usual

No Intervention group

Description:

Randomly assigned to receive services as usual

Enhanced Fatherhood Services through Regional Partnership Grant Round 7 (RPG7)

Experimental group

Description:

Randomly assigned to receive enhanced RPG7 services (motivational enhancement, fatherhood engagement services, contingency management, case management)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Motivational Enhancement

Behavioral: Contingency Management

Behavioral: HERO Dads Fatherhood Program

Behavioral: Case Management