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Leveraging Evidence to Activate Parents
Sponsor: Oregon Social Learning Center
Summary
The juvenile justice (JJ) system serves over a million cases every year and represents the primary referral source for treatment of substance use and antisocial behavior in youth. However, engagement of the JJ population in treatment is alarmingly low; further, rural communities have neither access to evidence-based practices (EBPs) nor the finances and treatment infrastructure to support their delivery. However, using an innovation called task-shifting, juvenile probation/parole officers in rural communities might be able to deliver a central change mechanism for EBPs (parent activation), with the ultimate goal of improving JJ youth outcomes.
Official title: Linking a Pediatric Healthcare Advance With a Task-Shifting Approach to Optimize Juvenile Justice Outcomes
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 80 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
141
Start Date
2021-03-01
Completion Date
2026-08-20
Last Updated
2026-09-25
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Parent Activation
Parent Activation (PA) is comprised of concrete social learning theory steps (i.e., direct instruction, modeling, practice opportunities, and reinforcement) that aim to enhance a parent's confidence, knowledge, and ability to manage his/her child's health. PA is applicable across a range of conditions, including behavioral and psychiatric problems, and it can be delivered by varied providers, including paraprofessionals.
Usual Services
This intervention refers to the typical techniques that JPOs employ to monitor the juveniles on their caseloads (e.g., regular meetings with youth and parents to ensure the youth is following conditions of probation and issuing swift sanctions \[community service; detention\] if conditions are not being followed).
Locations (1)
Oregon Social Learning Center
Eugene, Oregon, United States