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Facilitating Developmental Interactions With Children in Out-of-Home Care
Sponsor: Cornell University
Summary
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.
Official title: Enriching Relational Environments by Using Purposeful Interactions and Building Developmental Relationships With Children in Out of Home Care
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
8 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
300
Start Date
2026-01
Completion Date
2026-07
Last Updated
2026-01-28
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
The Developmental Interaction Workshop Series (DIWS)
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.
Locations (1)
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York, United States