Family Navigator Plus for Foster Parents

Part of paid clinical trials in Chicago, Illinois.

Sponsor
Northwestern University
Study ID
NCT06978959
Status
Recruiting
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Conditions

  • Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

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

Interventions

  • FN+ Intervention — BEHAVIORAL
    Participants will attend 5 one-on-one sessions over the course of 5 weeks; they will meet with a family navigator over video conferencing software (e.g., Zoom). The purpose of each sessions are as follows: 1) Provide an overview of the program and help parents understand their perceptions of child behaviors, 2) Train parents to find, access, and overcome barriers to mental health services, 3) Build parent capacity in understanding how mental health treatment works and how to communicate with providers, 4) Help parents understand the common function of child behaviors, and 5) Train parents to find, evaluate, and use online mental health tools. Participants will complete measures of child symptoms, parent activation, barriers to treatment, and/or satisfaction with the program before the intervention, immediately after the intervention, and 3 months after completing the intervention.

Study Details

The investigators have designed a 5-week Family Navigator Plus (FN+) educational program to support foster parents in better understanding their youth's mental health needs and in finding mental health services. The purpose of this interventional study is to assess the the program's acceptability (e.g., satisfaction, barriers to participation, and burden), utility (e.g., how useful foster parents found the program to be), and feasibility (e.g., number referred who meet eligibility, time to complete assessments, self-reported feasibility). The investigators hypothesize that our program will be acceptable, useful, and feasible for foster parents of youth with mental health needs.

Key Dates

Start date
Jan 12, 2026
Status verified
Jan 2026
Primary completion
Aug 31, 2027
Completion
Dec 31, 2028

Study Design

Enrollment
12 participants (estimated)
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT

Arms

  • Experimental: Foster Parents
    Participants will consist of adult (age 18 and older) foster parents of youth between the ages of 6 and 17 with mental health needs. Participants will be located in Illinois, and be either English or Spanish speaking. Participants will attend a 5-week educational program (one session per week) that aims to support them in understanding child behaviors, finding and access mental health services, communicating with providers, and using technology to find support.

Primary Outcome Measure

Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ) [ Time Frame: Post-Intervention (Week 5) and 3 Month Follow Up (Week 18) ]

Central Contacts

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
Northwestern UniversityChicagoIllinois60611
Heather J Risser, PhD
[email protected]
312-848-3019
Christina L Boisseau, PhD
[email protected]
804-332-1627
Heather J Risser, PhD (PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR)

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