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KEEP Connecting Kin

Description

The current study provides a unique opportunity to conduct a summative evaluation of the KEEP Connecting Kin (KEEP-CK) program by leveraging extant relationships with Oregon's Child Welfare System (CWS), Self-Sufficiency Program (SSP), and our community partners to address the needs of informal kinship families and the youth in their care. Specifically, a randomized "services-as-usual" (SAU) waitlist control design plus qualitative methods will be used to evaluate the immediate (post-intervention) and sustained (10 month) impacts of the KEEP-CK program on child, adult, and service utilization outcomes, and prevention of entry into the CWS.

Conditions

Internalizing BehaviorExternalizing BehaviorChild PermanencyParentingParent StressService Utilization
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Internalizing BehaviorExternalizing BehaviorChild PermanencyParentingParent StressService Utilization

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Study Details

Study overview

The current study provides a unique opportunity to conduct a summative evaluation of the KEEP Connecting Kin (KEEP-CK) program by leveraging extant relationships with Oregon's Child Welfare System (CWS), Self-Sufficiency Program (SSP), and our community partners to address the needs of informal kinship families and the youth in their care. Specifically, a randomized "services-as-usual" (SAU) waitlist control design plus qualitative methods will be used to evaluate the immediate (post-intervention) and sustained (10 month) impacts of the KEEP-CK program on child, adult, and service utilization outcomes, and prevention of entry into the CWS.

KEEP Connecting Kin: Improving Outcomes for Informal Kinship Care Families Via an In-Home Parenting and Peer-Support Program

KEEP Connecting Kin

Condition
Internalizing Behavior
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Eugene

Oregon Center Learning Center, Eugene, Oregon, United States, 97401

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Informal kinship caregivers in Oregon are defined as relatives or fictive kin who are caring for children between the ages of 4 to 18 years outside of the child welfare system with no birth/step parent living in the home.
  • * Informal kinship caregivers in Oregon who have previously participated in a KEEP or KEEP-CK group, or have a partner living in their home who has previously participated in a KEEP or KEEP-CK group.
  • * Focal child is not between the ages of 4-18 years at the baseline assessment.
  • * Focal child has been adopted by the kinship parent at the baseline assessment.
  • * Focal child is not living with the kinship caregiver full time (e.g., babysitting/weekends/vacations) at the baseline assessment.
  • * Focal child is in child welfare at the baseline assessment.
  • * Focal child is living with the kinship caregiver in a certified foster home at the baseline assessment.
  • * Focal child has a developmental disability or delay that impairs their ability to be responsive to the parenting content of KEEP-CK.

Ages Eligible for Study

4 Years to 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Oregon Social Learning Center,

Stacey Tiberio, Ph.D., PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Oregon Social Learning Center

Study Record Dates

2026-04