Facilitating Developmental Interactions With Children in Out-of-Home Care

Part of paid clinical trials in Ithaca, New York.

Sponsor
Cornell University
Study ID
NCT07283471
Status
Enrolling By Invitation

Conditions

  • Psychological Trauma

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
8 Years - N/A
Healthy Volunteers
Not accepted

Interventions

  • The Developmental Interaction Workshop Series (DIWS) — BEHAVIORAL
    Many children living in out-of-home care have experienced ongoing trauma, toxic stress, and adversity. These experiences have had a significant impact on children's ability to regulate their feelings and behaviors, enjoy healthy relationships, and grow along typical developmental pathways. To help these children to begin to heal from their past experiences and resume a more typical developmental trajectory, they need repetitive developmentally enriching interactions with adult caregivers. This requires caregivers with the willingness and ability to engage in frequent daily interpersonal exchanges with children that meet their emerging developmental needs and strengthen their internal resources to engage, grow, and heal. The DIWS is designed to help caregivers take advantaqe of the everyday and ordinary moments in daily life to create developmental interactions with children that help the child feel connected to others, capable, and autonomous.

Study Details

The first goal of this single arm clinical trial is to develop the Developmental Interactions Workshop Series (DIWS). The second goal is to learn about the DIWS's acceptability, feasibility, and usefulness by implementing it in agencies who provide residential care for children. The main questions it answers are * Does participating in the DIWS help caregivers to become more capable, motivated, and purposeful about using developmental interactions in their caregiving role? * Do caregivers and children see more developmental interactions during their routine daily activities after the caregivers complete the DIWS? Caregiving staff will * Attend the DIWS * Complete surveys 2-4 before and 4-6 weeks after the DIWS * Complete telephone interviews before and after the DIWS (a subset of caregiving staff) Children in care will complete brief surveys 2-4 weeks before and 4-8 weeks after their caregiving staff attend the DIWS.

Key Dates

Start date
Jan 31, 2026
Status verified
Dec 2025
Primary completion
Jul 31, 2026
Completion
Jul 31, 2026

Study Design

Enrollment
300 participants (estimated)
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Arms

  • Other: Developmental Interaction Workshop Series
    The two-part Developmental Interactions Workshop series is designed for adults who work with children in out-of-home care settings and the people who supervise these adults. Part 1 and Part 2 of this series include two sessions each: one session for direct caregivers and their supervisors, and one additional session for supervisors only. Part 2 of the workshop series should take place 3-4 weeks after Part 1. The focus of these workshops is helping caregivers to take advantage of the everyday and ordinary moments in daily life to create developmental interactions with children that help the child feel connected to others, capable, and autonomous. Supervisor only sessions will focus on the ways in which they can support and assist their staff to intentionally create these moments with children.

Primary Outcome Measure

Change in Frequency of Caregiving Practices over the past week from prior to attending the Developmental Interaction Workshop Series to 4 weeks after the final workshop [ Time Frame: From completion of the staff survey 2 weeks prior to the initial workshop to 4 weeks after the final workshop. The two parts of the workshop are delivered 3-4 weeks apart. ]

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
Cornell UniversityIthacaNew York14853-

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