Family Navigator Plus for Foster Parents (FN+)

Northwestern University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Intervention

Treatments: Behavioral: FN+ Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06978959

STU00222882

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators have designed a 5-week Family Navigator Plus (FN+) educational program to support foster parents in better understanding their youth's mental health needs and in finding mental health services. The purpose of this interventional study is to assess the the program's acceptability (e.g., satisfaction, barriers to participation, and burden), utility (e.g., how useful foster parents found the program to be), and feasibility (e.g., number referred who meet eligibility, time to complete assessments, self-reported feasibility). The investigators hypothesize that our program will be acceptable, useful, and feasible for foster parents of youth with mental health needs.

Enrollment: 12 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Foster parent of a youth between the ages of 6 to 17 with mental health needs
• Parent adopted child from foster care
• Living in Illinois, United States
• English or Spanish speaking
• Has access to internet and videoconferencing

Exclusion criteria

- Participated in the FN+ Focus Groups or PROACTIVE Parent Pilot Study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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12 participants in 1 patient group

Foster Parents

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will consist of adult (age 18 and older) foster parents of youth between the ages of 6 and 17 with mental health needs. Participants will be located in Illinois, and be either English or Spanish speaking. Participants will attend a 5-week educational program (one session per week) that aims to support them in understanding child behaviors, finding and access mental health services, communicating with providers, and using technology to find support.

Treatment:

Behavioral: FN+ Intervention