BUFFERING CHILDREN FROM TOXIC STRESS THROUGH ATTACHMENT-BASED INTERVENTION: AN EARLY HEAD START-UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP

该项目正在与大华盛顿地区的五个早期开端项目合作进行，这些项目主要为新移民拉丁裔家庭提供服务。劳里中心罗斯蒙特中心联合规划组织中心尼亚（华盛顿特区和塔科马帕克，马里兰州）我们正在一起进行一项随机试验，以家庭为基础的早期开端服务，有或没有补充的，基于依恋的育儿计划，多齐尔的“依恋和生物行为追赶”（ABC）干预。样本将由200个有6到18个月大孩子的“早期开端”家庭组成。

The project is being conducted in collaboration with five Early Head Start programs in the greater Washington, DC area that serve predominantly new immigrant Latino families: Family Services, Inc. The Lourie Center The Rosemount Center United Planning Organization Centro Nia (Washington, DC and Takoma Park, MD) Together we are conducting a randomized trial of home-based Early Head Start services with and without a supplemental, attachment-based parenting program, Dozier's "Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up" (ABC) intervention. The sample will be comprised of 200 Early Head Start families with 6- to 18- month old children. There are three key aims: Aim 1 - Validation: to define criteria for identifying EHS families at risk for experiencing toxic stress and to validate these criteria empirically. Aim 2 - Early Head Start + Parenting: to evaluate through a randomized trial the efficacy and "value added" of supplementing home-based EHS services with Dozier's ABC program. Aim 3 - Implementation and Sustainability: to evaluate the implementation and sustainability of the ABC program within the EHS context and the linkages between implementation characteristics and program impacts. Key outcomes include observed parenting behaviors and children's stress regulation, assessed both behaviorally and physiologically (e.g., cortisol production, vagal tone). The study's findings will advance the knowledge of how EHS can increase support for early parenting and thus buffer infants and toddlers from toxic stress.