HEAD START UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS: DUAL GENERATION APPROACHES

基于对注意力、压力和家庭动力学的神经可塑性的基础研究，我们开发了一种成功的双代干预，父母和孩子建立联系-突出注意力（PCMC-A），其目标是PCMC-A干预改善学龄前儿童在头部启动（HS）中的注意力、认知和行为的大脑功能，并且还改善沟通技能并减轻父母的压力（Neville等人，2013年）。 我们现在已经准备好扩大我们与莱恩县（HSOLC）的合作伙伴关系，以扩大PCMC-A的规模，以实现以下目标。目标1：与HSOLC合作开发PCMC-A的扩大模型，该模型由HS专家提供，可持续并可由其他HS计划复制。目标2：通过评估父母和儿童的健康和安全结局、父母教育、财务知识和决策、家庭混乱以及与健康结局相关的非稳态负荷生物标志物，表征PCMC-A改善与父母/家庭福祉相关的远端结局的程度。 目标3：通过评估父母和子女的心率变异性以及父母自我调节的神经生理学指标来完善我们的家庭压力和自我调节指标，以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.