NCT02843113

Stepping Up 4 Your Child

Stepping Up 4 Your Child: The Impact of an Educational Program and Social Case Work Involvement on Single Fathers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,266 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Louisville · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 16 Years – 105 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Through Stepping Up 4 Your Child, non-custodial fathers will be provided with a comprehensive, solution-oriented program featuring group based parent education and individualized case management to help them achieve financial independence, increase their parenting skills, and develop a co-parenting alliance.

Detailed description

Fathers' involvement in their children's lives has received increased attention in recent years. In response, support has grown for responsible fatherhood programs aimed at improving the quantity and quality of fathers' involvement. Research on these programs has concluded that factors such as fathers' parenting skills, co-parenting relationship quality, and socioeconomic status all impact fathers' ability to contribute to their children's growth and development. Using this previous research as a foundation, the Stepping Up 4 Your Child project will go beyond traditional fatherhood initiatives by integrating the provision of responsible parenting, economic stability, and relationship education services to fathers at risk for paternal disengagement. To do so, the University of Louisville's Kent School of Social Work will leverage its existing relationship with the Kentucky Office of Child Support Enforcement. Specifically, through Stepping Up 4 Your Child, non-custodial fathers will be provided with a comprehensive, solution-oriented program featuring group based parent education and individualized case management to help them achieve financial independence, increase their parenting skills, and develop a co-parenting alliance. Given that each of these focus areas have all been cited as three of the strongest predictors of paternal engagement, Stepping Up 4 Your Child and the results of its evaluation will have significant implications for the families it serves, as well as the practitioners, researchers, and policymakers interested in responsible fatherhood. 1

Conditions

• Parenting Education Curriculum
• Parenting Education Curriculum + Case Management
• Waiting List Control

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	4 Your Child Program	Integrates the provision of responsible parenting, economic stability, and relationship education services to fathers at risk for paternal disengagement.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-07-01
• Primary completion: 2020-12-30
• Completion: 2020-12-30
• First posted: 2016-07-25
• Last updated: 2021-07-28

Locations

6 sites across 1 country: United States