Child welfare system reforms are needed to help support families and prevent removal of children who may safely remain in the home. For those children who have been removed from their parents’ care, parent–child visits are a way to help maintain bonds and attachment and may help mitigate the trauma of removal. The primary goals of this randomized, controlled study were to assess the effects of the Strive Supervised Family Time Program on parental engagement, attendance, parenting skills in visits and the quality of the visits among parents involved with the child welfare system. Parents within Washington State having supervised visits with their children (from newborns to age eight) were randomly assigned to either the Strive program (n = 58) or a ‘supervised visitation as usual’ comparison group (n = 50) and then recruited to participate in the study. The Strive program is a manualized, evidence- and trauma-informed five session curriculum delivered one on one to parents by a Strive-trained “Strive Navigator” once a week over five weeks. The five sessions focus on engaging parents, emphasizing the importance of visits, building a positive rapport between the parent and the Strive Navigator, understanding and anticipating children’s feelings and behaviors in visits, creating routines to provide support and reassurance to children, creating a safe and healthy visit environment, strategies for positive and productive communication, and following their child’s lead in play. Survey data were collected from parents at the beginning and at the end of program. Strive Navigators documented program fidelity, and child welfare agency visit report forms provided data on visit attendance. Parents in the Strive program were more engaged in and had higher quality parent–child visits. There was no effect on visit attendance. Overall, the Strive program was well received by parents and showed promise in increasing the quality of parent–child visits through parent engagement, support, and skill development in areas associated with safety and attachment, stress management and communication. Strive provides a promising program of engagement and support uniquely tailored to the needs of parents involved in the child welfare system at a critical time. The contribution of the Strive program may, in addition to benefiting individual families, represent an important family time practice improvement for child welfare systems.

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努力加强对寄养儿童的监督式家庭探访：随机化试点研究的结果

需要进行儿童福利制度改革，以帮助支持家庭并防止将可能安全留在家中的儿童带走。对于那些离开父母照顾的孩子来说，亲子探访是帮助维持联系和依恋的一种方式，并可能有助于减轻离开父母的创伤。这项随机对照研究的主要目标是评估“努力监督家庭时间计划”对家长参与度、出勤率、探视中的养育技巧以及参与儿童福利系统的家长的探视质量的影响。华盛顿州内对其孩子（从新生儿到 8 岁）进行监督探视的家长被随机分配到 Strive 计划 (n = 58) 或“照常监督探视”对照组 (n = 50)，然后被招募参加在研究中。 Strive 计划是一个手动化、基于证据和创伤的五节课程，由经过 Strive 培训的“Strive 导航员”一对一地向家长提供，每周一次，持续五周。这五个课程的重点是让家长参与，强调探视的重要性，在家长和奋斗导航员之间建立积极的融洽关系，理解和预测孩子在探视中的感受和行为，制定例行程序为孩子提供支持和保证，创造一个安全和安全的环境。健康的探访环境、积极有效的沟通策略以及跟随孩子玩耍的主导。调查数据是在项目开始和结束时从家长那里收集的。 Strive Navigators 记录了计划的保真度，儿童福利机构访问报告表提供了访问出席率的数据。参加“奋斗”项目的家长参与度更高，亲子探访的质量也更高。对参观人数没有影响。总体而言，Strive 计划受到了家长的好评，并显示出通过家长参与、支持以及安全和依恋、压力管理和沟通等领域的技能发展来提高亲子探访质量的希望。 Strive 提供了一个有前途的参与和支持计划，专为满足关键时刻参与儿童福利系统的父母的需求而量身定制。 Strive 计划的贡献除了使个别家庭受益之外，还可能代表着儿童福利系统的重要家庭时间实践改进。