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

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05562557

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

• (i) is a custodial or non-custodial father,
• (ii) who has at least one child under the age of 18,
• (iii) someone in the family is identified as at-risk for substance use

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: Case Management

Behavioral: Motivational Enhancement

Behavioral: HERO Dads Fatherhood Program

Behavioral: Contingency Management