Family Navigator Plus for Foster Parents

Building Capacity for Youth Mental Wellness: Feasibility and Acceptability for a Mental Health Family Navigator Model for Foster Parents

The investigators have designed a 5-week Family Navigator Plus (FN+) educational program to support foster parents in better understanding their youth's mental health needs and in finding mental health services. The purpose of this interventional study is to assess the the program's acceptability (e.g., satisfaction, barriers to participation, and burden), utility (e.g., how useful foster parents found the program to be), and feasibility (e.g., number referred who meet eligibility, time to complete assessments, self-reported feasibility). The investigators hypothesize that our program will be acceptable, useful, and feasible for foster parents of youth with mental health needs.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Foster parent of a youth between the ages of 6 to 17 with mental health needs
• Parent adopted child from foster care
• Living in Illinois, United States
• English or Spanish speaking
• Has access to internet and videoconferencing

Exclusion Criteria:

- Participated in the FN+ Focus Groups or PROACTIVE Parent Pilot Study