Testing the CrOss Systems Technical Assistance for Retaining Staff (COSTARS) Model for Improving Staff Retention Among Child Welfare Workers and Peer Supporters, and Implementation of Evidence Based Interventions.
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: COSTARS, Implementation As Usual.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Substance Use Disorder, Opioid Use Disorder, Child Maltreatment, Implementation. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
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Official title
Staffing and Supports for Implementing Cross-System Interventions With Peer Mentors
Overview
The goal of this study is to test whether the CrOss System Technical Assistance for Retaining Staff (COSTARS) supervision leadership institute can promote workforce stability and improved implementation outcomes within the Ohio START child welfare program. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Among supervisors, caseworkers, and family peer mentors, what is the effect of COSTARS on staff retention and perceptions of the work environment? * What is the effect of COSTARS on service timeliness, implementation fidelity, and parent outcomes within Ohio START? Researchers will compare public children services agencies implementing COSTARS to those implementing supervision practices as usual to see if there are differences between groups in the outcomes described above. Participating supervisors will: * Complete a 6-hour training workshop in the FOCUS model of supervision. * Participate in monthly group coaching sessions with other supervisors, for approximately one year. * Receive individualized feedback from coaches about their supervision performance.
Interventions
- Other COSTARS
CrOss System Technical Assistance for Retaining Staff (COSTARS) is designed to help child welfare supervisors support the case workers and family peer mentors on their teams so that they can deliver programs like Ohio START to families affected by substance use disorder. COSTARS will deliver personalized coaching support to child welfare supervisors by a pair of coaches: one with child welfare expertise and one with lived recovery/child welfare experience. Supervisors will participate in a group - Other Implementation As Usual
Implementation as Usual includes training on the model, monthly technical assistance calls focused on model fidelity, regular audits of programmatic data, and monthly group calls with implementers from across the state.
Primary outcome measures
- Change Over Time in Employee Intention to Leave Position, as Assessed by the Turnover Intention Scale (TIS-6) [Time frame: Collected at Baseline, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, and Year 5]
- Change Over Time in Staff Retention [Time frame: Collected at Baseline, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5]
Secondary outcome measures (9)
- Change Over Time in Service Timeliness [Time frame: Collected from administrative records at Baseline, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, and Year 5.]
- Change Over Time in Implementation Fidelity [Time frame: Collected from administrative records at Baseline, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, and Year 5.]
- Change Over Time in Program Completion Rate [Time frame: Collected from administrative records at Baseline, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, and Year 5.]
- Change Over Time in Family Reunification Rates [Time frame: Collected from administrative records at Baseline, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, and Year 5.]
- Change Over Time in Perceived Stigma as assessed by the Child Welfare Worker Attitudes about Addiction Scale [Time frame: Collected at Baseline, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, and Year 5]
- Change Over Time in Role Clarity as Assessed by the Role Conflict-Role Ambiguity Scale [Time frame: Collected at Baseline, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, and Year 5]
- Change Over Time in Implementation Leadership as Assessed by the Implementation Leadership Scale (ILS) [Time frame: Collected at Baseline, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, and Year 5]
- Change Over Time in Implementation Climate as assessed using a 9-item scale [Time frame: Collected at Baseline, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, and Year 5]
- Change Over Time in Job Satisfaction as Assessed by the Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS) [Time frame: Collected at Baseline, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, and Year 5]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Adults employed as supervisors in child welfare agencies who are leading teams of case workers and family peer mentors as part of Ohio START implementation.
Exclusion criteria
- Not involved in Ohio START
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Crossover
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Ohio State University — Columbus
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07439783 · R33DA059893