Evaluating the Impact of Emergency Maternity Housing

Description

Moms will call and agencies will determine if she is eligible based on basic criteria. If she is eligible, the agency will send her an intake application link to complete, which includes a consent form. After completing the survey, if she is still eligible, she will be placed on a waitlist for services. When a bed becomes available in an individual agency, the agency will call two moms at the top of the waitlist, conduct in-person interviews to confirm eligibility and good fit. They will use a computer to randomly assign one to treatment and one to control. Agency will let moms know of their status and will allow the treatment mom to move in. Moms in treatment and control will be surveyed approximately one year post the mother's reported due date of the child.

Conditions

Housing Problems, Pregnancy Related

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Study overview

Moms will call and agencies will determine if she is eligible based on basic criteria. If she is eligible, the agency will send her an intake application link to complete, which includes a consent form. After completing the survey, if she is still eligible, she will be placed on a waitlist for services. When a bed becomes available in an individual agency, the agency will call two moms at the top of the waitlist, conduct in-person interviews to confirm eligibility and good fit. They will use a computer to randomly assign one to treatment and one to control. Agency will let moms know of their status and will allow the treatment mom to move in. Moms in treatment and control will be surveyed approximately one year post the mother's reported due date of the child.

Evaluating the Impact of Emergency Maternity Housing on Mother and Child Well-being, Housing, and Employment

Evaluating the Impact of Emergency Maternity Housing

Condition
Housing Problems
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States, 46556

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

  • * Each home has their own eligibility criteria. The main three criteria common across homes are that a woman must be at least 18 years old, experiencing housing instability, and pregnant. No home has an income standard because, by definition, applicants are in a precarious housing situation so most women are low-income. Each home does have slightly different eligibility criteria. For example, some homes allow other children to come with her into the home, while other homes do not. Some homes require a background check and might allow a woman to enter the home anyway depending on the prior offense.
  • * Women who are not pregnant, men, pregnant women under 18, some homes exclude mothers who have other children currently in their care

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Notre Dame,

William Evans, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Notre Dame

Adrienne Sabety, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Notre Dame

Jessica Brown, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of South Carolina

Study Record Dates

2025-12-01