Parenting for Tomorrow: A New Model for Supporting Preschool Children's Mental Health in Head Start

Johns Hopkins University

Status

Enrolling

Conditions

Parenting

Parenting Intervention

Treatments

Behavioral: Chicago Parent Program - individualized for families (CPPi)

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06145477

IRB00404061

Details and patient eligibility

About

Purpose of this study is to test the preliminary efficacy, acceptability, accessibility, cost, and sustainability of an innovative mental health treatment model for young children from low-income, under-resourced communities through a partnership with Head Start programs in urban and rural communities in Maryland.

Full description

The purpose of the study is to test the preliminary efficacy, acceptability, accessibility, cost, and sustainability of an innovative, scalable model for improving young children's mental health services through a partnership with Head Start programs in urban and rural communities in Maryland. The study will use four transformational innovations for eliminating barriers to high quality mental health services for families of young children (2-5 years old) from low-income, under-resourced communities through a partnership with Head Start programs in urban and rural communities in Maryland: 1) test an adaptation of a validated group-based parenting skills and support program (Chicago Parent Program) developed in collaboration with African American and Hispanic parents from low-income communities, for use with individual families (CPPi) concerned about the participant's preschool children's mental health; 2) embed CPPi in a trusted community-based agency long committed to a 2-generation social service model of supporting families from low-income communities; 3) use human centered design strategies to co-create a CPPi referral and enrollment strategy with parents and staff that is welcoming, culturally appropriate, consistent with Head Start's service delivery processes, and eliminates the stigma associated with children receiving a psychiatric diagnosis (as is typically required for reimbursement in traditional child mental health settings); and 4) capitalize on the knowledge, experience, and holistic orientation of registered nurses (RNs) to implement CPPi in Head Start. Children's behavior problems collected at baseline and post-intervention data from the parent and teacher's perspectives. Parent satisfaction with CPPi is measured at post-intervention only.

Enrollment

160 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 99 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Child is 2-5 years old, enrolled in Baltimore City Head Start (Baltimore City Mayor's Office on Child & Family Success) or Head Start sites managed by Catholic Charities of MD
parent expresses concern about the child's behavior or need for parenting support
parent speaks English or Spanish
Parent age 18-99 years
Parent able to participate in virtual intervention sessions

Exclusion criteria