Mama Empoderada: Parenting and Mental Health Intervention

Mama Empoderada: A Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Preventative Intervention for Spanish Speaking Mothers and Their Young Children

This project focuses on the implementation and preliminary evaluation of Mama Empoderada, a brief 12-week group intervention that is based on a parenting program (Mom Power).

The researcher's hypotheses are that:

1. Participants will show high rates of fidelity, acceptability, and satisfaction with the intervention
2. Participants will experience decreases in depression, anxiety, isolation, parenting stress, and parent-child interaction problems from pre- to post-intervention, as well as increases in parenting sense of competence.

The study team is from the University of Michigan. The intervention will take place at La Casa Amiga in Pontiac, Michigan.

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Identifies as a mother of a child ages 6 or younger;
2. Spanish-speaker;
3. available and interested in participating in an in-person or virtual maternal wellbeing and parenting group intervention at La Casa Amiga. Eligibility criteria will be confirmed by each participant through a brief online screening and a phone call with research staff.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Participants who are high risk for suicide based on Columbia Suicide Rating Scale