Safety and placement stability for the Children's Home Network kinship navigator program.
Families first
Grandparents raising grandchildren
Kinship care
Navigator
Journal
Child abuse & neglect
ISSN: 1873-7757
Titre abrégé: Child Abuse Negl
Pays: England
ID NLM: 7801702
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 2020
08 2020
Historique:
received:
04
08
2018
revised:
14
03
2020
accepted:
13
04
2020
pubmed:
2
6
2020
medline:
11
6
2021
entrez:
2
6
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
With the passage of the Families First Prevention Act, kinship navigator programs have growing support as an intervention to connect kinship families to needed resources. Growing evidence has helped to showcase the outcomes, but no study has shared follow up outcomes past twelve months. This study examined the 12, 24 and 36 month follow up child safety (substantiated abuse record) and placement stability (disruption in placement) outcomes from state administered secondary data for children whose caregivers participated in the Children's Home Network-Kinship Navigator Program (CHN-KN). Study participants were 240 (60 in each group) randomly selected kinship caregivers who were enrolled in four treatment groups in CHN-KN (Standard Kinship Navigator, Kinship Navigator with Innovations, Kinship Navigator with Peer-to-Peer only, and Usual Child Welfare). Repeated measures anovas were used to show between group differences for each study group. Results show that children living with caregivers who received Kinship Navigator Programs (Kinship Navigator Peer to Peer and Kinship Navigator with Innovations) were the least likely to be involved in a substantiation of child abuse or neglect and most likely to remain in the home of a relative at 12, 24 and 36 month follow up. Results suggest that the kinship navigator programs could improve child safety and placement stability. This study can help to inform the replication of the CHN-KN model and provide additional supported evidence to inform practice.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
With the passage of the Families First Prevention Act, kinship navigator programs have growing support as an intervention to connect kinship families to needed resources. Growing evidence has helped to showcase the outcomes, but no study has shared follow up outcomes past twelve months.
OBJECTIVE
This study examined the 12, 24 and 36 month follow up child safety (substantiated abuse record) and placement stability (disruption in placement) outcomes from state administered secondary data for children whose caregivers participated in the Children's Home Network-Kinship Navigator Program (CHN-KN).
SETTING
Study participants were 240 (60 in each group) randomly selected kinship caregivers who were enrolled in four treatment groups in CHN-KN (Standard Kinship Navigator, Kinship Navigator with Innovations, Kinship Navigator with Peer-to-Peer only, and Usual Child Welfare).
METHODS
Repeated measures anovas were used to show between group differences for each study group.
RESULTS
Results show that children living with caregivers who received Kinship Navigator Programs (Kinship Navigator Peer to Peer and Kinship Navigator with Innovations) were the least likely to be involved in a substantiation of child abuse or neglect and most likely to remain in the home of a relative at 12, 24 and 36 month follow up.
CONCLUSIONS
Results suggest that the kinship navigator programs could improve child safety and placement stability. This study can help to inform the replication of the CHN-KN model and provide additional supported evidence to inform practice.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32480103
pii: S0145-2134(20)30161-7
doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104506
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
104506Informations de copyright
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