MOMS Hubs- CT Dept of Social Services Block Grant

Overview

The MOMS Partnership aims to create "MOMS Zones" in New Haven neighborhoods where the hardest to reach families live. These "MOMS Zones" will have two unique features: (1) a MOMS "Hub" to deliver centralized mental health and family economic success services to the hardest to reach families living in New Haven's most impoverished neighborhoods, as measured by actual socio-economic status as well as by access to resources; (2) a neighborhood workforce of Community Mental Health Ambassadors (CMHAs–mothers who themselves live in New Haven). The MOMS Workforce Program and MOMS Mental Health Program will be offered at all three Hubs.

Full Title of Study: “MOMS Partnership-Community-Based Hubs for Maternal Mental Health and Workforce Development, New Haven MOMS Partnership- CT Dept of Social Services Block Grant”

Study Type

  • Study Type: Interventional
  • Study Design
    • Allocation: Non-Randomized
    • Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
    • Primary Purpose: Treatment
    • Masking: None (Open Label)
  • Study Primary Completion Date: May 25, 2017

Detailed Description

The MOMs workforce program will involve teaching, coaching, and supportive services for participants as they navigate their journeys to sustainable employment that pays a family-supporting wage. Participants will be guided through an individualized progression of services designed to increase their employability, to increase their ability to earn higher incomes in career-track employment, and to improve their chances of retaining jobs and advancing in them. The MOMS Mental Health program centers around a manualized Stress Management Course 8-class group treatment, delivered once per week. The course was adapted from "The Mother and Child Course" by Munoz and Le (2011) for the population of New Haven mothers who are served by the MOMS Partnership.

Interventions

  • Behavioral: CBT- Mental Health Program
    • Manualized Stress Management class; brief individual behavioral counseling.
  • Behavioral: MOMS GROW
    • MOMS GROW (Generating Real Opportunities for Work) Teaching, coaching, and supportive services for participants as they navigate their journeys to sustainable employment that pays a family-supporting wage.

Arms, Groups and Cohorts

  • Active Comparator: CBT- Mental Health Program
    • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Manualized Stress Management class; brief individual behavioral counseling.
  • Active Comparator: MOMS GROW
    • MOMS GROW (Generating Real Opportunities for Work) Teaching, coaching, and supportive services for participants as they navigate their journeys to sustainable employment that pays a family-supporting wage.

Clinical Trial Outcome Measures

Primary Measures

  • Improvement in Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CED-D) Scale
    • Time Frame: 6 months
    • Reduced CES-D Score (CES-D score goal <16)
  • Improvement in work readiness skills
    • Time Frame: 6 months
    • Reduced CASAS score

Participating in This Clinical Trial

Inclusion criteria are as follows:

  • Participant is a woman raising a child or adolescent under 18 years of age. The child/adolescent may be her biological offspring or in her custody due to adoption or foster care. Care arrangements may be legally sanctioned or informal, as is common in New Haven families. Thus, the eligible participant may be a sister, aunt, grandmother, or other female responsible for the daily care of children. – Participant currently resides within the city limits of New Haven, CT. – Participant resided within County of New Haven, CT on October 29, 2012. – Participant's income is at or below 325% of the Federal poverty income. – Participant is a U.S. citizen. – Participant's score on CES-D > 16. Exclusion criteria are as follows: – Signs or symptoms of active psychosis or active suicidality will be a basis for exclusion in the study. – Lack of proficiency in English.

Gender Eligibility: Female

Minimum Age: 18 Years

Maximum Age: N/A

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: No

Investigator Details

  • Lead Sponsor
    • Yale University
  • Collaborator
    • Clifford Beers Clinic
  • Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
    • Sponsor
  • Overall Official(s)
    • Megan V Smith, DrPH, Principal Investigator, Yale University

Clinical trials entries are delivered from the US National Institutes of Health and are not reviewed separately by this site. Please see the identifier information above for retrieving further details from the government database.

At TrialBulletin.com, we keep tabs on over 200,000 clinical trials in the US and abroad, using medical data supplied directly by the US National Institutes of Health. Please see the About and Contact page for details.