HEAD START UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS: DUAL GENERATION APPROACHES

基于对注意力、压力和家庭动态的神经可塑性的基础研究，我们成功地开发了一种双代干预，即父母和孩子建立联系-突出注意力（PCMC-A），该干预针对PCMC-A干预改善学前儿童在Head Start （HS）阶段的注意力、认知和行为的大脑功能，并提高父母的沟通技巧和减轻压力（Neville et al., 2013）。我们现在已做好充分准备，扩大与Lane County Head Start （HSOLC）的伙伴关系，扩大PCMC-A，以便更广泛地实施，实现以下目标。目标1：与HSOLC合作开发PCMC-A的放大模型，由HS专家提供，并可由其他HS项目可持续复制。目标2：通过评估父母和子女的健康和安全结果、父母教育、财务知识和决策、家庭混乱以及与健康结果相关的适应负荷生物标志物，表征PCMC-A改善与父母/家庭福祉相关的远端结果的程度。目标3：通过评估父母和孩子的心率变异性以及父母自我调节的神经生理测量，来完善我们对家庭压力和自我调节的测量，从而评估与家庭幸福变化相关的假设中介因素，特别是基础系统（压力和自我调节）的变化。

Based on basic research on the neuroplasticity of attention, stress, and family dynamics, we developed a successful dual-generation intervention, Parents and Children Making Connections - Highlighting Attention (PCMC-A), which targets PCMC-A intervention improves brain function for attention, cognition, and behavior in preschool children in Head Start (HS) and also improves communication skills and reduces stress in parents (Neville et al., 2013). We are now well-poised to expand our partnership with Head Start of Lane County (HSOLC) to scale-up PCMC-A for broader implementation with the following goals. Goal 1: To partner with HSOLC to develop a scaled-up model of PCMC-A that is delivered by HS specialists and sustainable and replicable by other HS programs. Goal 2: To characterize the degree to which PCMC-A improves distal outcomes related to parent/family well-being by assessing health and safety outcomes in parents and children, parental education, financial literacy and decision making, household chaos, and biomarkers of allostatic load related to health outcomes. Goal 3: To evaluate hypothesized mediating factors related to changes in family well-being, specifically changes in foundational systems (stress and self-regulation) by refining our measures of family stress and self-regulation by assessing heart rate variability in parents and children and neurophysiological measures of self-regulation in parents.