InterventionIgniteNCT05356234
Ignite Study of the Jewish Family and Children's Service of the Suncoast, Inc.
A study testing Treatment Intervention: Responsible Parenting, Relationships, and Employment Services in people with Intervention and Wait-List Control, run by Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast, Inc. at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
The goals of the program are to help struggling fathers and father figures improve the parent-child relationship, sustain healthy marriages and relationships (and help those who are single identify ways to enter into safe and supportive relationships that may ultimately lead to marriage), and identify and support… Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Intervention, Wait-List Control
- What is being tested?
- Treatment Intervention: Responsible Parenting, Relationships, and Employment Services
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 675 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- 1 Apr 2022to 1 Jun 2025
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- Not yet: the study is under way
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 years and older
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Adults age 18 or older
- Have a child or children under the age of 24
- Interested in improving the parent-child relationship, sustain healthy marriages and relationships, and economic stability and employment objectives
- Resides in Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties on the Gulf Coast of Florida
Who cannot join
- Under age 18
- Does not reside in Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties on the Gulf Coast of Florida
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.
United States1 site, 1 recruiting
- Recruiting
Jewish Family and Children Service of the Suncoast, Inc.
Sarasota, Florida, 34237
Jessica Truman, BA, 941-248-9267, jtruman@jfcs-cares.org
About this study
Official title: Randomized Controlled Trial of the Jewish Family and Children's Service of the Suncoast, Inc.
The goals of the program are to help struggling fathers and father figures improve the parent-child relationship, sustain healthy marriages and relationships (and help those who are single identify ways to enter into safe and supportive relationships that may ultimately lead to marriage), and identify and support fathers in their economic stability and employment objectives. These outcomes will be achieved through a series of workshops addressing responsible parenting and marriage and relationships as well as a complement of employment services and comprehensive case management. Additional services needed by participants will be identified and provided either through wraparound programming provided by JFCS or through collaborative agreements with local partner agencies. Additionally, Ignite will incorporate a comprehensive employment program combining both job and career advancement.
Read the detailed description
In each full year of the grant, this program will serve a minimum of 250 community-based fathers or expectant fathers (custodial or noncustodial) who are age 18 and older and who have a child or children under the age of 24. While the program will be targeted to fathers, mothers may also be served, as might individuals who play a father figure role such as adoptive fathers, foster fathers, grandfathers, etc. Ignite will serve the geographic area of Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties on the Gulf Coast of Florida. The goals of the program are to help struggling fathers and father figures improve the parent-child relationship, sustain healthy marriages and relationships (and help those who are single identify ways to enter into safe and supportive relationships that may ultimately lead to marriage), and identify and support fathers in their economic stability and employment objectives. These outcomes will be achieved through the provision of a series of workshops addressing responsible parenting and marriage and relationships as well as a complement of employment services and comprehensive case management. Additional services needed by participants will be identified and provided either through the extensive wraparound programming provided by JFCS or through collaborative agreements with local partner agencies.
Additionally, Ignite will incorporate a comprehensive employment program combining both job and career advancement. This will help fathers in crisis reach improved financial stability, which will in turn improve the ability of individual participants to be better parents and better partners, furthering the goals to foster more stable parent-child relationships and promote healthy marriages in the region. Nationwide 35% of children live in single parent families. Growing up in a single-parent family increases a child's risk of growing up poor, becoming a teen parent, dropping out of school, and disconnecting from the labor market. Coupled with its successful history of providing healthy marriage programming, JFCS as an agency is well-positioned to help families in crisis (both due to current economic conditions and in more long-term tenuous situations) become more stable and self-sufficient. Notable within our local demographic data is a significantly higher than average rate of unemployment and higher percentages of income in the past 30 days less than $500. Understanding the inextricable link between financial security and family stability, Ignite is truly targeting and reaching the most vulnerable individuals based solely on economic risk factors.
- Conditions
- Intervention, Wait-List Control
- Being tested
- Treatment Intervention: Responsible Parenting, Relationships, and Employment Services
- Keywords
- Healthy parent and child relationships, Economic self-sufficiency
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Treatment Intervention: Responsible Parenting, Relationships, and Employment ServicesBehavioural
The Intervention group will be assigned a Case Manager and placed in the next available On My Shoulders (OMS) curriculum that offers strategies to help individuals develop a strong and healthy self in the service of making current and/or future relationships of all forms (parent-child, romantic, family, work) successful and satisfying. This curriculum is intended to equip men (and, where applicable, women) with the skills they need to build and nurture healthy relationships. This curriculum should help participants improve family functioning. Additionally, Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) financial literacy curriculum will be utilized to help participants increase job retention for those currently employed, improve wages through additional educational and training opportunities, and learn skills to better manage family finances. This curriculum should help participants increase economic stability and mobility.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Treatment Intervention: Responsible Parenting, Relationships, and Employment Services | Experimental | Experimental: A series of workshops addressing responsible parenting and marriage and relationships as well as a complement of employment services and comprehensive case management will be conducted over a 12-week period. Receives: Behavioral: Treatment Intervention: Responsible Parenting, Relationships, and Employment Services |
| Wait-List Control | No intervention | The Wait-List Control group will be placed on a wait-list and offered services as soon as they complete the study's final 24-week follow-up measures. Wait-List Control participants will not be assigned a Case Manager and will not receive any comparable services from our agency until they complete their 24-week measures. |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Family Environment Survey (FES)
The FES was developed to measure social and environmental characteristics of families. Face and content validity are supported by clear statements about family situations that relate to subscale domains, and the measure can differentiate between distressed and normal family samples.
Measured: 24 weeks
Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS)
The RDAS is a 32-item self-report standardized measure with 4 subscales: (1) Dyadic Consensus, (2) Dyadic Satisfaction, (3) Affectional Expression, and (4) Dyadic Cohesion as well as a total score.
Measured: 24 weeks
Perceived Employment Barriers Scale (PEBS)
The PEBS is a 20-item scale developed to measure barriers to employment including the following subscales: (1) Physical and mental health, (2) Labor market exclusion, (3) Child care, (4) Human capital, and (5) Soft skills. The measure is a Likert-type scale ranging from 1 to 5 where 1 indicates 'not a barrier' and 5 indicates 'strong barrier'.
Measured: 24 weeks
Employment Hope Scale (EHS)
The EHS is a 14-item scale developed to measure psychological self-sufficiency with two subscales: (1) psychological empowerment, and (2) goal-oriented pathways. This is a Likert-type scale ranging from 0 to 10 where 0 indicates 'strongly disagree' and 10 indicates 'strongly agree'.
Measured: 24 weeks
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted2 May 2022
- Study start1 Apr 2022
- Primary completion1 Jun 2025 (estimated)
- Study completion1 Jun 2025 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for InterventionStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Model description
- The Intervention group will start with assigning a Case Manager and conducting a series of workshops addressing responsible parenting and marriage and relationships as well as a complement of employment services and comprehensive case management.
- Masking
- Single blind
- Who is masked
- Outcomes assessor
- Enrolment
- 675 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast, Inc.
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Katelyn Kopakin, MA, Study director, Jewish Family Children's Services of the Suncoast, Inc.
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05356234
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 20220421
- Acronym
- Ignite
- Status last verified
- Feb 2025
- First submitted
- 22 Apr 2022
- Last updated
- 27 Feb 2025
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 27 Feb 2025. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Randomized Controlled Trial of the Jewish Family and Children's Service of the Suncoast, Inc.
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05356234
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- Ignite / 20220421
- Conditions
- Intervention, Wait-List Control
- Keywords
- Healthy parent and child relationships, Economic self-sufficiency
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Recruiting
- Enrolment
- 675 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast, Inc.University, hospital or other
- Study start
- 1 Apr 2022 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 1 Jun 2025 (estimated)
- Study completion
- 1 Jun 2025 (estimated)
- First posted
- 2 May 2022 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
The goals of the program are to help struggling fathers and father figures improve the parent-child relationship, sustain healthy marriages and relationships (and help those who are single identify ways to enter into safe and supportive relationships that may ultimately lead to marriage), and identify and support fathers in their economic stability and employment objectives. These outcomes will be achieved through a series of workshops addressing responsible parenting and marriage and relationships as well as a complement of employment services and comprehensive case management. Additional services needed by participants will be identified and provided either through wraparound programming provided by JFCS or through collaborative agreements with local partner agencies. Additionally, Ignite will incorporate a comprehensive employment program combining both job and career advancement.
Detailed description
In each full year of the grant, this program will serve a minimum of 250 community-based fathers or expectant fathers (custodial or noncustodial) who are age 18 and older and who have a child or children under the age of 24. While the program will be targeted to fathers, mothers may also be served, as might individuals who play a father figure role such as adoptive fathers, foster fathers, grandfathers, etc. Ignite will serve the geographic area of Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties on the Gulf Coast of Florida. The goals of the program are to help struggling fathers and father figures improve the parent-child relationship, sustain healthy marriages and relationships (and help those who are single identify ways to enter into safe and supportive relationships that may ultimately lead to marriage), and identify and support fathers in their economic stability and employment objectives. These outcomes will be achieved through the provision of a series of workshops addressing responsible parenting and marriage and relationships as well as a complement of employment services and comprehensive case management. Additional services needed by participants will be identified and provided either through the extensive wraparound programming provided by JFCS or through collaborative agreements with local partner agencies.
Additionally, Ignite will incorporate a comprehensive employment program combining both job and career advancement. This will help fathers in crisis reach improved financial stability, which will in turn improve the ability of individual participants to be better parents and better partners, furthering the goals to foster more stable parent-child relationships and promote healthy marriages in the region. Nationwide 35% of children live in single parent families. Growing up in a single-parent family increases a child's risk of growing up poor, becoming a teen parent, dropping out of school, and disconnecting from the labor market. Coupled with its successful history of providing healthy marriage programming, JFCS as an agency is well-positioned to help families in crisis (both due to current economic conditions and in more long-term tenuous situations) become more stable and self-sufficient. Notable within our local demographic data is a significantly higher than average rate of unemployment and higher percentages of income in the past 30 days less than $500. Understanding the inextricable link between financial security and family stability, Ignite is truly targeting and reaching the most vulnerable individuals based solely on economic risk factors.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind (outcomes assessor)
- Number of arms
- 2
- Model description
- The Intervention group will start with assigning a Case Manager and conducting a series of workshops addressing responsible parenting and marriage and relationships as well as a complement of employment services and comprehensive case management.
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Treatment Intervention: Responsible Parenting, Relationships, and Employment Services | Experimental | Behavioral: Treatment Intervention: Responsible Parenting, Relationships, and Employment ServicesExperimental: A series of workshops addressing responsible parenting and marriage and relationships as well as a complement of employment services and comprehensive case management will be conducted over a 12-week period. |
| Wait-List Control | No intervention | –The Wait-List Control group will be placed on a wait-list and offered services as soon as they complete the study's final 24-week follow-up measures. Wait-List Control participants will not be assigned a Case Manager and will not receive any comparable services from our agency until they complete their 24-week measures. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (4 listed)
- Adults age 18 or older
- Have a child or children under the age of 24
- Interested in improving the parent-child relationship, sustain healthy marriages and relationships, and economic stability and employment objectives
- Resides in Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties on the Gulf Coast of Florida
Key exclusion criteria (2 listed)
- Under age 18
- Does not reside in Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties on the Gulf Coast of Florida
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Treatment Intervention: Responsible Parenting, Relationships, and Employment ServicesThe Intervention group will be assigned a Case Manager and placed in the next available On My Shoulders (OMS) curriculum that offers strategies to help individuals develop a strong and healthy self in the service of making current and/or future relationships of all forms (parent-child, romantic, family, work) successful and satisfying. This curriculum is intended to equip men (and, where applicable, women) with the skills they need to build and nurture healthy relationships. This curriculum should help participants improve family functioning. Additionally, Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) financial literacy curriculum will be utilized to help participants increase job retention for those currently employed, improve wages through additional educational and training opportunities, and learn skills to better manage family finances. This curriculum should help participants increase economic stability and mobility. | Behavioural | Treatment Intervention: Responsible Parenting, Relationships, and Employment Services |
Primary outcome
Family Environment Survey (FES)
Time frame: 24 weeks
The FES was developed to measure social and environmental characteristics of families. Face and content validity are supported by clear statements about family situations that relate to subscale domains, and the measure can differentiate between distressed and normal family samples.
Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS)
Time frame: 24 weeks
The RDAS is a 32-item self-report standardized measure with 4 subscales: (1) Dyadic Consensus, (2) Dyadic Satisfaction, (3) Affectional Expression, and (4) Dyadic Cohesion as well as a total score.
Perceived Employment Barriers Scale (PEBS)
Time frame: 24 weeks
The PEBS is a 20-item scale developed to measure barriers to employment including the following subscales: (1) Physical and mental health, (2) Labor market exclusion, (3) Child care, (4) Human capital, and (5) Soft skills. The measure is a Likert-type scale ranging from 1 to 5 where 1 indicates 'not a barrier' and 5 indicates 'strong barrier'.
Employment Hope Scale (EHS)
Time frame: 24 weeks
The EHS is a 14-item scale developed to measure psychological self-sufficiency with two subscales: (1) psychological empowerment, and (2) goal-oriented pathways. This is a Likert-type scale ranging from 0 to 10 where 0 indicates 'strongly disagree' and 10 indicates 'strongly agree'.
Results and safety
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 27 Feb 2025.
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part.
Katelyn Kopakin, MA study director
Jewish Family Children's Services of the Suncoast, Inc.
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Treatment Intervention: Responsible Parenting, Relationships, and Employment Services in people with Intervention and Wait-List Control, run by Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast, Inc. at 1 site in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 4 inclusion and 2 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: looking for participants now, as of the sponsor's last update on 27 Feb 2025. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact Andrew Truman, BS (941-256-4130, jtruman@jfcs-cares.org), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Family Environment Survey (FES) (time frame: 24 weeks). The study lists 4 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 27 Feb 2025.