Evaluating Program Enhancements for Mentors Working with Children of Incarcerated Parents (COIP), United States, 2016-2020 (ICPSR 38055)
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Jean Rhodes, University of Massachusetts at Boston
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38055.v1
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The Children of Incarcerated Parents (COIP) Project was established as a means of evaluating mentorships between children whose parents are incarcerated and program mentors. This establishment was done as a result of the fact that over half of currently incarcerated Americans are parents, and over half of children whose parents are incarcerated are below the age of 10. The consequences of children having parents incarcerated can include family instability and possible future criminal activity of such children. The COIP Project was implemented across various mentorship programs throughout the United States with the objective of countering these issues.
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Datasets 0001 to 0018 are implementational datasets focused on program enhancement. Datasets 0019 to 0048 are analysis datasets that contain post-program calculations. The analysis datasets are grouped between outcomes analysis and raw datasets. Datasets 0019 to 0038 of the outcomes analysis datasets are grouped into imputed versus raw stacked pairs, with the imputed datasets typically containing 100 times the number of cases as the raw datasets.
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The main purpose of the Children of Incarcerated Parents (COIP) Project was to evaluate the effectiveness of program enhancements implemented at all stages of a traditional mentoring relationship (i.e., recruitment, screening, matching, training, match support, and closure) on youth outcomes for children of incarcerated parents. The influence of the implementation and dosage of the enhancements on match and youth outcomes was also of interest in the project.
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This study employed a design of within-program random assignment of mentees at 20 participating mentoring programs. The assignment was done to test the effectiveness of program enhancements delivered to treatment group mentors, mentees and their families, and match support staff on match and mentee outcomes. Mentors, mentees and their families, and match support staff in the comparison group experience "business-as-usual" (BAU) services for their program.
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This project includes a convenience sample of children impacted by parental incarceration who were enrolled in one of 20 youth mentoring programs across the United States. Other participating groups in this study include a parent or caregiver of each participating child, the volunteer mentor assigned to the participating child, and staff members from the 20 mentoring programs across the United States involved in this project.
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Children ages 8-18 who have been impacted by parental incarceration who have been enrolled in a mentoring program in the United States.
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Variables that are present in this study include statistical values for calculating relations between parents, mentors, and mentees. Demographic variables include race, gender, family relationship to participants, and education.
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Scale models present in the study include the short IOWA Conners Rating Scale (ICPRS; Pelham, Milich, Murphy, and Murphy, 1989), a modified version of the self-report coping scale (Causey and Dubow, 1992), the Strength of Mentoring Relationship scale, the Perceptions of Mentoring Relationship Closeness (adapted from the Network of Relationships Inventor; Furman and Buhrmester, 1985), and numerous other response and internalizing scales.
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2022-03-30
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2022-03-30 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
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