Restoring Empowerment and Choosing Hope (REACH)

Part of paid clinical trials in Sarasota, Florida.

Sponsor
Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast, Inc.
Study ID
NCT05299138
Status
Recruiting
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Conditions

  • Intervention
  • Wait List Control

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
18 Years - N/A
Healthy Volunteers
Accepted

Interventions

  • Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) Intervention — BEHAVIORAL
    The Intervention group will be assigned a Case Manager and placed in the next available Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) class that is convenient for their schedule. Intervention participants will attend classes weekly and meet with their Case Manager weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly, as needed. Study measures will be gathered from intervention participants at baseline, 10 weeks after baseline, and then 22 weeks after baseline. The following tools will be utilized at baseline and follow-up assessment: (1) REACH program eligibility screening (only conducted at baseline), (2) Information, Family Outcomes, Reporting, and Management (nFORM) system, (3) Family Environment Scale (FES), (4) Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS), and (5) Economic Self-Sufficiency Scale (ESS).

Study Details

The goals of REACH are to help adults develop the skills they need to develop healthy relationship and marriage skills, improve ability to parent and co-parent effectively, identify and enhance skills and abilities required to gain or retain economic self-sufficiency, and foster family stability and increase successful marriage rates. Data from the tri-county region comprised of Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties demonstrates the presence of a number of risk factors affecting family stability, including high rates of single-parent households, births to unwed mothers, and high median rent costs compared to poverty rates and income. By providing families with relationship enhancement, parenting, and economic self-sufficiency services, this should help to optimize each family member's quality of life and improve child well-being.

Key Dates

Start date
Feb 17, 2022
Status verified
Feb 2025
Primary completion
Jun 1, 2025
Completion
Jun 1, 2025

Study Design

Enrollment
900 participants (estimated)
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT

Arms

  • Experimental: Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) Intervention
    The Intervention group will be assigned a Case Manager and begin Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) class weekly and meet with their Case Manager as needed.
  • No Intervention: Wait list control
    The Control group will be placed on a wait-list and offered services as soon as they complete the study's final 22-week follow-up measures. Control participants will not be assigned a Case Manager and will not receive any comparable services from our agency until they complete their 22-week measures.

Primary Outcome Measure

Family Environment Survey (FES) [ Time Frame: 22 weeks after baseline ]

Central Contacts

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
Jewish Family and Children ServiceSarasotaFlorida34237
Megan Sicks, BA
[email protected]
9413662224

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