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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.

ConditionsSubstance Use DisorderOpioid Use DisorderChild MaltreatmentImplementationPeer Recovery Supporters
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorAlicia Bunger

About this trial

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.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

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.

Disqualifiers

Not involved in Ohio START

Trial design

Design model

Crossover

Treatments tested in this trial

  • COSTARS

    Other intervention

    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 training that emphasizes supportive supervision practices, and then receive up to two years of ongoing coaching support that involves monthly calls, and written feedback based on recorded supervision sessions.

  • Implementation As Usual

    Other intervention

    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.

Treatment groups

200 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: COSTARSExperimental treatment 2 interventions
Group B: Implementation As UsualActive comparator 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Change Over Time in Employee Intention to Leave Position, as Assessed by the Turnover Intention Scale (TIS-6)

The Turnover Intention Scale (TIS-6) measures the degree to which an employee intends to leave their job.

Time frame
Collected at Baseline, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, and Year 5
2

Change Over Time in Staff Retention

Number of months family peer mentors and caseworkers serve in their position.

Time frame
Collected at Baseline, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5

Secondary outcomes

1

Change Over Time in Service Timeliness

Count of days to receive: * Family peer mentor visit * Substance use disorder assessment * First substance use disorder treatment

Time frame
Collected from administrative records at Baseline, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, and Year 5.
2

Change Over Time in Implementation Fidelity

Delivery of START model components. * Family peer mentor visit, any substance use disorder treatment, medically assisted treatment (binary) * Total number of substance use disorder treatment sessions received (count)

Time frame
Collected from administrative records at Baseline, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, and Year 5.
3

Change Over Time in Program Completion Rate

Administrative records indicate parent discharge reason as "completed the family case plan" (binary)

Time frame
Collected from administrative records at Baseline, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, and Year 5.
4

Change Over Time in Family Reunification Rates

At the time of child welfare case close, proportion of child(ren) who are living with family.

Time frame
Collected from administrative records at Baseline, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, and Year 5.

Other outcomes

Locations

This trial has no locations.

Sponsors and contacts

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Alicia Bunger

Lead sponsor

Ohio State University

Sponsor institution

Source ClinicalTrials.gov

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