PAIVED
Interview and Site Visit Screener for Selection of
Responsible Fatherhood Programs and Partners
RF PROGRAM SCREENING
RF Program:
OFA Grantee (Y/N):
Location:
Spoke to:
Date/Time:
INTRODUCTION
The goal of the PAIVED study is to learn more about the services that Responsible Fatherhood programs are providing or could provide to address and help prevent violence that occurs between the fathers you serve and their current or former romantic partners, sometimes called intimate partner violence or domestic violence.
To help achieve this goal, Child Trends is reaching out to program directors to learn more about your work with fathers in order to select programs for the study. Your participation is voluntary – you can choose not to participate at all, or you can choose to answer some questions and not others. Any information obtained from this interview and reported in publications will be kept private and will not be identifiable to any one specific individual or organization.
If selected, Child Trends will be conducting telephone interviews with Responsible Fatherhood program staff, including program directors/administrators, program facilitators, and staff from partner organizations. We also hope to visit select RF programs in person. During the site visits, we will conduct observations of one or two RF program sessions with fathers or other relevant programming or trainings in addition to conducting interviews either in person or by telephone with Responsible Fatherhood program staff.
These interviews and site visits are expected to begin this month and will be completed by the end of the year. About half of the organizations that participate in the study will be selected for phone interviews and half will be selected to participate in site visits, so your organization may or may not be asked to participate in a site visit.
We want to collect information from many different types of Responsible Fatherhood programs implemented all around the country. In order to appropriately select programs for interviews and site visits, we wanted to first talk with you to learn more about your fatherhood program. Today’s conversation should take about 60 minutes.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The OMB number for the described information collection is 0970-XXXX and the expiration date is XX/XX/XXXX.
SCREENING QUESTIONS
Can you please provide a brief summary of your program(s) for fathers?
[If funded by OFA]. What services/activities are covered by your OFA RF grant?
[Obtain/confirm specific name of OFA-funded program(s)]
How long has your agency/collaboration been working with fathers?
Tell me a little bit about the staff at your organization.
[#/types
of staff, for example admin, facilitators, full-time, part-time,
volunteer, program graduates as facilitators]
Tell me about who you serve.
[Probe
for target population, characteristics of participants, number of
participants]
What curriculum/curricula, if any, do you use?
Where does programming occur? [onsite, community partner, etc.]
We’ll cover some of this in a lot more detail in any later conversations we have as part of the study if your organization is selected and you agree to participate, but I’d like to learn a little bit today about your work related to intimate partner violence.
Is there another term you prefer we use instead of intimate partner violence during our conversation today?
Do you offer services to address issues related to IPV [OR PREFFERED LANGUAGE]?
What types of services? What does that look like?
Do you screen for IPV [OR PREFFERED LANGUAGE]?
[If yes] How is the information collected in the screenings used?
Do you have protocols in place to respond to IPV [OR PREFFERED LANGUAGE] that you hear about or observe during your programming?
[If funded by OFA]. Are these services provided through your OFA grant or another funding source?
Can you briefly describe any challenges you have experienced related to addressing IPV [OR PREFFERED LANGUAGE] with fathers?
[Ask even if they are not currently addressing IPV. We want to learn from programs who want to be doing more to address IPV, but have encountered barriers]
Are there any partnerships in place between your organization and other agencies to address and help prevent IPV [OR PREFFERED LANGUAGE] among fathers participating in your program(s)?
[If yes] What type of organizations do you partner with?
What services/activities do these partners provide?
To the best of your knowledge, what services/program activities for fathers will be occurring between September and December 2018?
Will any of these activities focus on addressing and helping to prevent IPV [OR PREFFERED LANGUAGE]?
Who are key program staff that you think would be best to meet with to learn more about your work related to IPV [OR PREFFERED LANGUAGE]?
Who are key partner staff that you think would be best to meet with to learn more about your work related to IPV [OR PREFFERED LANGUAGE]?
Can you please provide contact information for up to two partner organizations that we can call to gather more information about their organizations as part of our recruitment process? [Collect name, phone number, email address, and information about position at partner organization]
Thank you, I believe I have the information I need right now. May I contact you again if I have additional questions? Do you have any questions for us?
CLOSING
This initial call was to gather information to see if your organization would fit within our study. A decision will be made later about which programs will be selected for phone interviews and site visits.
If selected for a site visit, we would work with you to schedule a convenient time for our team to visit your organization for 2-3 days. We would want to interview a project director/you [if speaking to a project director], at least one facilitator/program coordinator, and at least one community partner who works with you to address and help prevent IPV.
We would also like to be able to observe 1-2 sessions with fathers, particularly program sessions that address IPV [OR PREFFERED LANGUAGE].
Sites will be selected based on what we have learned today about your existing program activities related to IPV [OR PREFFERED LANGUAGE], your availability, and the timing of your program activities in fall 2018, which is approximately when we plan to begin. Once we get closer to when we hope to begin the interviews and site visits, our team will follow up with you to get more information about your ongoing program activities at that time.
If selected, are you interested in participating? Would your organization be willing to participate in the in-person site visits?
Once further decisions are made about which programs we can meet with, our team will send an email with more details. We will also request contact information for other program staff and partners that we should meet with. Who should we email to get started on this process, if you are selected?
EMAIL ADDRESS: _____________________________________
PARTNER SCREENING
Name of organization:
RF program working with organization:
Location:
Spoke to:
Date/Time:
Note: Contact with partners will not occur until screening calls with RF programs are complete. If an RF program identifies multiple partner organizations, we will ask RF program staff to provide us with names and contact information for up to two partners. The screening questions below will be used to determine whether one or both partners should be interviewed.
INTRODUCTION
As noted in our initial email, the goal of the PAIVED study is to learn more about the services that federally funded Responsible Fatherhood programs are providing or could provide to address and help prevent violence that occurs between fathers and their current or former romantic partners, sometimes called intimate partner violence or domestic violence.
To help achieve this goal, Child Trends is interviewing program directors from Responsible Fatherhood programs and partner organizations like yours to help select sites for the study. Your participation is voluntary – you can choose not to participate at all, or you can choose to answer some questions and not others. Any information obtained from these interviews and reported in publications will be kept private and will not be identifiable to any one specific individual or organization.
If selected, Child Trends will be conducting telephone interviews with Responsible Fatherhood program staff, including program directors/administrators, program facilitators, and staff from partner organizations. We also hope to visit select programs and partner organizations in person. During the site visits, we will conduct observations of one or two Responsible Fatherhood program sessions with fathers or other relevant programming or trainings in addition to conducting interviews with program staff.
These interviews and site visits are expected to begin this month and will be completed by the end of the year. Your organization may or may not be selected for a site visit.
We want to collect information from many different types of Responsible Fatherhood programs implemented all around the country, and their community partners. In order to appropriately select programs for interviews and site visits, we wanted to first talk with you to learn more about your partnership with [RF PROGRAM NAME].
Today’s conversation should take about 15 minutes.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The OMB number for this information collection is 0970-XXXX and the expiration date is XX/XX/XXXX.
SCREENING QUESTIONS
We’ll cover some of this in a lot more detail in later interviews, but I’d like to learn a little bit today about your partnership with [RF PROGRAM NAME].
Can you please describe the partnership you have with [RF PROGRAM NAME] and the types of services/activities you provide that address IPV among fathers?
Who is the best person to talk to so that we can learn more about your organization’s partnership with [RF PROGRAM NAME]?
Yourself? Somebody else?
[If somebody else] Can you please provide us with contact information for that person?
To the best of your knowledge, what services/program activities for fathers will be occurring between September and December 2018?
CLOSING
This initial call was to gather information to see if your organization would fit within our study. A decision will be made later about which organizations will be selected for phone interviews and site visits.
If selected for a site visit, we would work with you to schedule a convenient time for our team to visit your organization and the fatherhood program you work with for 2-3 days.
Sites will be selected based on what we have learned today about your existing activities working with fathers to address and help prevent IPV, your availability, and the timing of your program activities in fall 2018, which is approximately when we plan to begin. Once we get closer to when we hope to begin the interviews and site visits, our team will follow up with you to get more information about your ongoing program activities at that time.
If selected, are you interested in participating? Would your organization be willing to participate in the in-person site visits?
Once further decisions are made about which organizations we can meet with, our team will send an email with more details. Who should we email to get started on this process, if you are selected?
EMAIL ADDRESS: _____________________________________
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