| Project Title: | Family Intervention Program |
| Grant/Contract Number: | 90CA1581 |
| Type of Project: | Demonstration |
| Funding Agency: | Office on Child Abuse and Neglect |
| Agency Contact Person: | Sue
Sparrow (202) 205-8244 |
| Principal Investigator: | Susan J. Westfall |
| Mailing Address: | Valley
Youth House Committee, Inc. 829 Linden Street Allentown, PA 18101 |
| Total Project Duration: | 09/30/96 to 09/29/01 |
| FY 98 Total Costs: | $150,000 |
| Total Project Budget: | $1,000,000 |
| Child Maltreatment Focus: | Primary, Secondary |
| Type of Abuse: | Neglect |
| Sample Size: | 150 families over 5 years |
| Age of Subjects: | Birth-11 years old |
| Child
Abuse and Neglect Focus of This Project: |
Treatment and Preventive Interventions |
| Summary |
| The Family Intervention Program will refine a previous NCCAN-funded prevention project. The goals of the program are (1) to offer long-term in-home assistance to families with children with a parent who has a substance abuse or mental health problem at risk of neglect and chronically neglecting, including those whose children have returned from placement; (2) to augment community services by providing in-home mental health, substance abuse, and family support services, including parenting education, to meet the prevention, intervention, and treatment needs of participants; (3) to reduce the substance abuse, emotional, and economic problems of the parents and increase their parenting skills; (4) to reduce the health, academic, behavioral, social, and emotional problems of the children; (5) to keep the family unit intact and to minimize the use of public welfare and placement services; and (6) test the overall efficacy of the program. The project will serve 150 families with children ages birth to 11 years, focusing on children at risk of neglect, children chronically neglected, and neglected children who have returned home from out of-home placement in Lehigh and Northampton Counties, Pennsylvania. The project aims to prevent out-of-home placements among participating families, reduce the most prominent precursors to neglect, ameliorate the most prominent effects of neglect, increase services to neglected children, test the efficacy of a comprehensive program services, and provide an evaluation. The population served is expected to be 55 percent male and 45 percent female; the racial composition is expected to be 50 percent Caucasian, 19 percent Black, 17 percent Biracial, and 13 percent Hispanic. |
