Effects of a Brief Parenting Intervention In Shelters For Mothers And Their Children Experiencing Homelessness

Armstrong, Jenna M.; Owens, Caitlyn R.; Haskett, Mary E.

doi:10.1007/s10826-021-02021-2

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“…One evidence‐based option is Triple P—Positive Parenting Programme (Sanders et al, 2014). There is some empirical support for Triple P (Armstrong et al, 2021; Haskett et al, 2018) delivered to parents in shelters. Evidence‐based interventions such as Triple P should be adapted to the constraints of shelter life that mothers in our study mentioned, including loss of family routines, disruptions in sleep patterns and the pressure to adhere to shelter rules about discipline.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…One evidence-based option is Triple P-Positive Parenting Programme (Sanders et al, 2014). There is some empirical support for Triple P (Armstrong et al, 2021;Haskett et al, 2018) Third, mothers mentioned their child's and their own personal needs for emotional support and mental health care. Many of the behaviours that were challenging for parents are common for young children who have faced adversity .…”

Section: Practice and Policy Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘I just want my parenting to be able to be better than what it is’: A qualitative exploration of parenting strengths and needs of mothers experiencing homelessness

Owens

Stokes

Haskett

2022

Child & Family Social Work

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Perspectives of parents themselves should be central in framing services delivered to families experiencing homelessness. We explored the strengths and positive features of mother-child relationships and insight into mothers' views of the impact of living in shelters. We conducted qualitative coding of the Five-Minute Speech Sample (FMSS) of 41 mothers of young children. Results revealed a wide variety of strategies that mothers used to promote their children's resilient functioning. This included focusing on their children's strengths, providing unconditional love and engaging in positive activities together. Mothers also voiced varied approaches to parenting, including many positive practices. Mothers' FMSS included ways that living in the shelter had a negative impact on their child's functioning, and they reported negative changes in their relationship with their child since moving into the shelter. Finally, mothers discussed ways in which living in the shelter had influenced their parenting styles and approaches to discipline. We discuss implications of the findings for supporting families residing in shelters, and we provide recommendations for further research.

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Section: Practice and Policy Implicationsmentioning

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‘I just want my parenting to be able to be better than what it is’: A qualitative exploration of parenting strengths and needs of mothers experiencing homelessness

Owens

Stokes

Haskett

2022

Child & Family Social Work

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“…As a systems-intervention, the BELL program is particularly ambitious in its scope and multisystem reach. Nevertheless, even interventions focused on a single system for young children in shelter have begun incorporating intentional components to address the multisystem contexts of family homelessness and the reality of the shelter as a system (Armstrong et al, 2021; Hare et al, 2023; Herbers, Cutuli, Fugo, et al, 2020; Herbers & Henderson, 2019). Homelessness often threatens development through multisystem processes, and the success of interventions to promote child and family resilience rests in bolstering strengths and resources within key systems and the connections between them.…”

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Families with young children in homeless shelters: Developmental contexts of multisystem risks and resources

Cutuli,

Herbers,

Vrabic

et al. 2023

Dev Psychopathol

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We apply a multisystem perspective to three aims relevant to resilience for young children in emergency and transitional homeless shelters. We consider profiles of risks and resources before shelter, early childhood program enrollment during shelter, and the likelihood of returning to shelter or having a subsequent child welfare placement. We used longitudinal, city-wide data from multiple sources integrated at the individual level across the lifespan for 8 birth cohorts. Young children (N = 1,281) stayed in family shelters during an 18-month period during a multisystem intervention. Risk factor rates were high as were rates of early childhood program enrollment (66.1% in any program; 42.3% in a high-quality program), which may suggest positive effects of the multisystem intervention. Multilevel latent class analysis revealed four profiles, considering prior shelter stays, prior child welfare placements, prior elevated lead levels, perinatal factors (teenage mother, prenatal care, low maternal education, and poor birth outcomes), demographics, and early childhood program enrollment and quality. One profile with higher rates of child welfare placement before the shelter stay and considerable enrollment in high-quality early childhood programs corresponded to lower rates of subsequent child welfare placement. Profiles did not differ on the likelihood of returning to shelter.

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“…To evaluate the developmental appropriateness of family homeless shelters, we considered two types of resources available to families with young children: (1) parenting programming and (2) child-friendly spaces. Previous research demonstrates that parenting programming can serve as a protective factor for families experiencing adversity by improving parent-infant responsiveness (Armstrong et al, 2021;Herbers et al, 2014Herbers et al, , 2020.…”

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“…A large body of evidence demonstrates that positive parenting practices like sensitivity and responsiveness can be improved through parenting interventions (De Graff et al, 2008), and some interventions have shown promise with families experiencing homelessness (see, e.g., Armstrong et al, 2021; Herbers et al, 2020). Generally, though, there is a lack of research concerning whether and how family shelters utilize parenting programmes and to what extent programmes in use are evidence‐based (Haskett et al, 2016).…”

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Family homeless shelters as contexts for early childhood development: Shelter resources and staff capacity

Halverson,

Wallace,

Tebepah

et al. 2023

Child & Family Social Work

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Family homeless shelters are critical contexts in which many young children develop; however, little is known about the developmental appropriateness of these settings, including their resources and the capacity of their staff to effectively meet the needs of the children and families they serve. The current study involves both quantitative and qualitative components to assess aspects of developmental appropriateness of US shelter spaces for children ages birth to 5 years, with an emphasis on staff knowledge, parenting programmes, and play spaces. Participants were 64 staff working in different family homeless shelters representing all 10 Housing and Urban Development regions. Data were collected via semistructured phone interviews. Results indicated that most shelters offered some type of parenting programme (65.5%) and had some developmentally appropriate space for families with young children (87.5%); however, the nature of these spaces and programmes varied considerably, with very few respondents describing use of evidence‐based practices. Findings on knowledge of early child development among shelter staff indicated substantial need for trainings on a range of topics, including typical child development, parent–child relationships, and impacts of trauma on families with young children. Furthermore, we identified a need for better measurement tools to assess knowledge of child development.

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Effects of a Brief Parenting Intervention In Shelters For Mothers And Their Children Experiencing Homelessness

Cited by 10 publications

References 47 publications

‘I just want my parenting to be able to be better than what it is’: A qualitative exploration of parenting strengths and needs of mothers experiencing homelessness

‘I just want my parenting to be able to be better than what it is’: A qualitative exploration of parenting strengths and needs of mothers experiencing homelessness

Families with young children in homeless shelters: Developmental contexts of multisystem risks and resources

Family homeless shelters as contexts for early childhood development: Shelter resources and staff capacity

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