{"id":11736,"date":"2022-12-16T16:47:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T16:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/?page_id=11736"},"modified":"2023-04-19T22:47:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T22:47:18","slug":"connecting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/connecting\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"11736\" class=\"elementor elementor-11736\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-602c0d8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"602c0d8\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8fe81d9\" data-id=\"8fe81d9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-73c8ec1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"73c8ec1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 18px;\"><b>Building Better Bonds Between Teens and Their Foster Parents<\/b><\/h2><p style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 18px;\">There are many parenting programs that focus on broad audiences, but very few that specifically target parent-child relationships within the child welfare system. In partnership with colleagues from the <a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/sdrg\/\">Social Development Research Group<\/a>, P4C researchers helped tailor an existing parenting program known to improve communication with teens in non-foster families for use in foster families.<\/p><p style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 18px;\">The program, Connecting, aims to improve bonds between teens and foster parents, which in turn can make teens less vulnerable to risky behaviors, including substance abuse, violence or promiscuous sexual activity.<\/p><p style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 18px;\">So far the program has promising results and information about the program and its development has been published in several journals. The team also secured $2.5 million to fund\u00a0a five-year, randomized controlled trial to test the efficacy of the program, which is currently underway.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building Better Bonds Between Teens and Their Foster Parents There are many parenting programs that focus on broad audiences, but very few that specifically target parent-child relationships within the child welfare system. In partnership with colleagues from the Social Development Research Group, P4C researchers helped tailor an existing parenting program known to improve communication with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11736"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12606,"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11736\/revisions\/12606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}