Rostad Whitney L, Rogers Tia McGill, Chaffin Mark J
The Mark Chaffin Center for Healthy Development, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, PO Box 3995, Atlanta, GA 30302, USA.
Child Youth Serv Rev. 2017 Jan;72:26-33. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2016.10.014. Epub 2016 Oct 17.
Families living in poverty are significantly more likely to become involved with child welfare services, and consequently, referred to interventions that target abusive and neglectful parenting practices. Program engagement and retention are difficult to achieve, possibly because of the concrete resource insufficiencies that may have contributed to a family's involvement with services in the first place. Various strategies have been used to enhance program completion, such as motivational interventions, monetary incentives, and financial assistance with concrete needs. This study examines the influence of adjunctive concrete support provided by home visitors on families' ( = 1754) engagement, retention, and satisfaction with services as well as parenting outcomes. Using propensity stratification, mixed modeling procedures revealed that increasing concrete support predicted greater engagement, satisfaction, goal attainment, and lower short-term recidivism. Results suggest that adjunctive concrete support is a potentially beneficial strategy for promoting service engagement and satisfaction and increasing short-term child safety.
生活贫困的家庭更有可能与儿童福利服务机构产生联系，因此，会被转介到针对虐待和忽视性养育行为的干预措施中。项目参与和持续参与很难实现，这可能是因为具体的资源不足，而这些不足最初可能导致了家庭与服务机构的联系。人们采用了各种策略来提高项目完成率，比如激励干预、金钱奖励以及满足具体需求的经济援助。本研究考察了家访员提供的辅助性具体支持对家庭（=1754）参与服务、持续参与服务、对服务的满意度以及养育结果的影响。使用倾向分层法，混合建模程序显示，增加具体支持预示着更高的参与度、满意度、目标达成率以及更低的短期再犯率。结果表明，辅助性具体支持是促进服务参与和满意度以及提高短期儿童安全的一种潜在有益策略。
