NCT05562557

A Regional Partnership to Improve Outcomes Through Fatherhood Engagement

A Regional Partnership for New York City to Improve Well-Being and Child Welfare Outcomes Among Families at Risk of Substance Misuse Through Fatherhood Engagement

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 240 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Montefiore Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Substance Use
• Child Abuse
• Child Neglect
• Fathers
• Father-Child Relations

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Motivational Enhancement	Evidence-based adaptation of Motivational Interviewing (MI), designed to target ambivalence to change and create internal motivation to engage in substance abuse treatment
BEHAVIORAL	HERO Dads Fatherhood Program	Use the 24/7 Dad fatherhood curriculum, delivered by Montefiore HERO Dads, with an additional 4-session employment education curriculum and 3-session parent coaching to reinforce individual skills learned in fatherhood curriculum. Curriculum designed to increase awareness, knowledge, and skills for parenting and co-parenting.
BEHAVIORAL	Contingency Management	To improve attendance at services and abstinence outcomes.
BEHAVIORAL	Case Management	Referrals to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and engagement, mental health resources, public assistance resources, connection to the Office of Childhood Services and other case management needs.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-05-09
• Primary completion: 2027-09-01
• Completion: 2027-09-01
• First posted: 2022-09-30
• Last updated: 2026-03-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States